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Thread #57990   Message #915061
Posted By: Amos
20-Mar-03 - 11:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: New World Order Newspeak
Subject: RE: BS: New World Order Newspeak
There's a wonderful parlor game built on this mechanism in which every verb is identified in three forms ranging from the most euphemistic to the most derogatory.

I chat, you share, she gossips.

I glow, you perspire, he sweats.

I cleanse, you commit genocide, he wipes out masses.

I liberate, you disarm, he invades....

work out your own examples.

Actually "liberating" things in the chaos at the end of WW II was a euphemism for just stealing food, vehicles, clothes or anything else you needed.

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