Tag: English
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How To Destroy Democracy, Step One: Hijack The Language
Words matter. In a democracy, they matter a lot. Ours is a do-it-yourself government. We don’t have a king or a dictator to solve our problems because we chose to solve them all ourselves – using the majority’s wisdom. In order to do that, we have to agree on a couple of things: to begin…
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Fer F*ck’s Sake, America — They’re Just WORDS!
George Bernard Shaw put it this way — ‘The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.” Not that every Brit is Shakespeare — that would be a slight over-statement — but regardless of how profane they are by nature most Brits are a hell of a lot better at using…