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Unspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. Climate change is less threatening than Global Warming; we say ethnic cleansing when we mean mass murder. As we absorb and repeat Unspeak we are... read more
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- White House
- Iraq
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- Guantanamo Bay
- Britain
- Unspeak
- Afghanistan
- United States
- America
- London
- Asbo
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- Vietnam
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- Baghdad
- France
- Al Qaeda
- Gaza
- Geneva
- Palestine
- Jerusalem
- Rwanda
- Abu Ghraib
- Bosnia
- China
- Iran
- Sarajevo
- South Africa
- Fallujah
- Dover
- England
- Washington
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A long time ago in China, a philosopher was asked the first thing he would do if he became ruler.
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- Steven Poole (Author)
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- Books › Reference › Words & Language › Etymology
- Books › Reference › Writing › Journalism
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
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