--- title: Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Euphemisms description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 23 «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / Soft words for hard things: business a… # Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin The 16 questions of lesson 23 «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with their options, 90 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t1/) — "ugh, the concert ticket was 40 but they added a convenience fee of 6" — how much did they pay in all? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t2/) — News: "The minister said yesterday's figures were wrong and that he had misspoken." What does this admit? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t3/) — A cereal box says "New look, same great taste!" and it costs the same. What should a shopper check? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t4/) — "Lol it's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature" — what is the speaker really saying? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t5/) — The app maker writes: "We are sunsetting this app on 1 May." What will happen? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t6/) — Taxi prices doubled during the storm. What is this called? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t7/) — Report: "Our sales fell because of headwinds and challenging trading conditions." What does the firm admit? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t8/) — The boss says: "Losing that million was a learning experience." What happened? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t9/) — A politician says: "This is not a tax rise, it is revenue enhancement." Is it a tax rise? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t10/) — Jake says: "Alternative facts are facts from a different book, so they're true too." Is he right? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t11/) — "the bank still runs on some legacy system from the 80s, total pain" — what does the bank use? — right ✓ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t12/) — An auditor (someone who checks a firm's money records) finds "creative accounting" in the books. What has she found? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/e1/) — Identify the principal meaning of the expression "economical with the truth" as applied to a public official's statement. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/e2/) — It is given that a corporation has designated a defect in its software a "known issue". Select the response consistent with the established facts. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the practice of "dynamic pricing"? — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/e4/) — Ascertain the plain meaning of "revenue enhancement" when employed by a legislator in respect of fiscal policy. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [22. 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