I personalize, you track across apps, they invade your privacy.
The “irregular verbs” made famous on Yes, Minister.
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The Russell conjugation (2020)
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#13This seems like the same thing as Orwellian doubletalk with a fancy name. What am I missing? It's a play on the definitions of words.
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#14My favorite example of this is "average" vs "normal". People want to be considered normal but do not want to be considered average.
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#15This seems like the same thing as Orwellian doubletalk with a fancy name. What am I missing? It's a play on the definitions of words.
Definitely related and certainly an ancient concept.
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#16>different words and phrases can be factual synonyms, but emotional antonyms
I can't believe that this is some novel concept. Surely this has been a rhetorical tactic for as long as rhetoric has existed.
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#17This seems like the same thing as Orwellian doubletalk with a fancy name. What am I missing? It's a play on the definitions of words.
"Russell Conjugation" gives an age old process a solid and easy to google name.
Doubletalk is more about deliberately avoiding certain words or terms, trying to limit the thoughts that can be expressed. You wouldn't want to do ungood things would you? That would be double+ ungood.
>It's a play on the definitions of words.
It's more of a play of the emotional meanings of words. We in the US talk about the founding fathers, patriots, freedom fighters.... those same people were regarded as traitors, terrorists, and insurrectionists by the British Empire. The same acts of war, but from a different emotional vantage.