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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

What does it mean

Hi,

"Joan contacts a local news channel about doing a story on the homeless in an effort to raise awareness for those who are as Joanie would put it residentially handicapped. "

What does ' as' mean and what does 'put it residentially handicapped' mean in the context above?

Thanks.

  

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" ____________________________________________________ The text needs punctuation with commas or brackets to show that this is said parenthetically. The meaning is that 'residentially handicapped' is a phrase like one that Joan would use. residentially handicapped is a euphemistic way of saying homeless .

— Clive

  • " ____________________________________________________ The text needs punctuation with commas or brackets to show that this is said parenthetically.
  • The meaning is that 'residentially handicapped' is a phrase like one that Joan would use.
  • residentially handicapped is a euphemistic way of saying homeless .
  • Clive
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"Joan contacts a local news channel about doing a story on the homeless in an effort to raise awareness for those who are (as Joanie would put it) residentially handicapped."

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The text needs punctuation with commas or brackets to show that this is said parenthetically.

The meaning is that 'residentially handicapped'

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anonymousWhat does ' as' mean and what does 'put it residentially handicapped' mean in the context above?

A couple of commas would help:

"Joan contacts a local news channel about doing a story on the homeless in an effort to raise awareness for those who are, as Joanie would put it, residentially handicapped."

Joanie doesn't like the term "homel

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Hi,

Thank you both very much for your explanation. That helps me a lot.

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anonymousresidentially handicapped

This is a somewhat strange and mildly humorous way of saying "homeless".

Similarly, to avoid saying "old people" we sometimes hear "seniors", or more elaborately but tongue-in-cheek, "the chronologically challenged".

Such substitute phrases for making unpleasant facts less unpleasant are called euphemisms

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