Today, we continued our work with communication with a Socratic Seminar about how our words can express more than we intend. We focused on euphemisms specifically focusing on euphemisms that many use in replacement of socially unacceptable words. The goal of the lesson was simply to get students to understand that using a euphemism does not disconnect it from the original word it's replacing.

"Someone might use the euphemism," I explained at the end, "but many people will still hear the unacceptable word."