http://www.dibsblog.com/?p=10 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:48:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.dibsblog.com/?p=10#comment-2 aperson Fri, 12 May 2006 00:08:39 +0000 http://www.dibsblog.com/?p=10#comment-2 What really bothered me about this book was the way he completely ignored some of the most egregious euphemisms — such as “affirmative action” as a code phrase for “racial discrimination,” and “critical theory” which really means “Marxism.” Perhaps this is because the author is British and those terms are not common there, but I think the real reason is that he was just trying to push one political viewpoint by analyzing some deceptive phrases, yet not mentioning others. So, in the end, Unspeak is itself a form of unspeak, since he hides his true intentions with deceptive use of language.

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