Language update for Oct


Professor Polistra's monthly bucket is overfull of Orwell. All of these words come from one source, and all mean pretty much the same thing. After cleaning up this mess, she brings a few halfway interesting language finds.

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Disaster:

Latest addition to USA STRONG Newspeak. Disaster = peace.

In UK Telegraph:

US President Barack Obama warns Russia's aggressive military campaign in Syria supporting strongman Assad is a "recipe for disaster".

Translation: Recipe for peace. For our purposes peace IS disaster because peace is directly contrary to the Holy Will Of Our Most Noble And Radiant Prophet Binyamin Netanyahu.

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Blighted:

The Obama administration backed away Friday from a blighted effort to train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State, as the Pentagon announced plans to instead provide direct aid to existing rebel units it believes have better odds of succeeding against the militants.

Yet another euphemism for Epic Fail. Follows on embattled and beleaguered.

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The remainder of the Orwell shit comes from JUST ONE SPEECH by USA STRONG Secretary of Genocide, Oatmealbrain Carter.

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Malign:

Benign.

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Destabilizing:

Stabilizing.

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Misguided:

Correct.

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Isolation:

Sanity.

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Inflame:

Heal.

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Prolong:

Shorten.

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Dour:

Corbyn on Scottish independence.

“Oh, there’s no magic solutions. There’s hard work and dour activities and that’s what I’m going to be doing.”

Dour is nearly obsolete, used in only a few fixed phrases. It's always associated with a face or attitude, not activities.

Dour activities doesn't seem to be an existing cliche; Google Ngram gadget finds exactly zero occurrences over its two century range. Not entirely clear what Corbyn means, but it's certainly a lively and evocative phrase.

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Mononym candidates:

This year's Federal "election" is unique in that all the likely candidates (at this moment anyway) are properly known by one name. Properly because several earlier candidates tried to be mononyms, but only looked stupid. Remember Lamar!? I don't either. Jeb and Hillary are mononyms in the same way that Charles, Pius, Victoria, Catherine or Æthelred are mononyms. They are members of a dynastic sequence, so there isn't a surname. Trump™® is a mononym in a different way. Trump™® has turned his name into an actual brand by actual commercial use. Trump™® belongs in the same category as GM or Kraft or Kodak.

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MeenMawWhichSomePeopleStillReferToAsBurma:

The latest stage in this peculiar piece of linguistic tyranny. It doesn't matter that actual MeenMawWhichSomePeopleStillReferToAsBurmans call their country Burma when speaking English. No, we need to instruct the unenlightened masses that they are in SERIOUS TROUBLE for using the offensive patronizing insulting non-Die-Verse word Burma.

Hey BBC fuckheads! If you're going to shoot people who refuse to comply with your official name, at least you could TRY to pronounce your official name right. American mediasatans are running the same tyranny, but they generally pronounce it properly. Myan is not all that hard to say. Pretend you're forced to read some atrocious tinfoil trollshit by one of those ultrafarrightwingnut kippernazihitler types like Churchill. What are you doing? I'm yawning. Correct. Now say it again and take off the outer syllables.

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