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Exposing Deliberate Pollution of the English Language:
Spinspeak Rots the Mind. |
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“Bury forever what some Neanderthals call the language of reality. We know that breeds nothing but envy and hate and fear and conflict. Bring home the language of happiness. We know that brings all of us together in a great multi-cultural bouillabaisse...”
--Spinmeister-in-Chief Marvin Runnymede, Ultimate Severance
“Too bad about his terrible accident. Always hard on da family.”
--Mobster Joey “the Boy” Lasagna, Ultimate Severance
Some Latest Spinspeak Mintings for the Spinspeak II Supplement:
earmarks=innocent-sounding congressional cosmeticspeak for vaguely related pork inserted into legislation on behalf of a legislator’s constituencies and/or “contributing” special interests.
buzz marketing=adspeak for word of mouth promotion via paid talkers
miscount=universal fuzzball for excusing deliberately slanted numerical reports as a simple mistake
hedonic adaptation=psychobabble for rapid deterioration of happiness and return to general dissatisfaction after something good occurs in your life such as a raise in pay, a promotion or demise of a rich aunt.
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:: Saturday, April 19, 2003 ::
New Spinspeak from Liberated Baghdad
More definitions from the Second Gulf War:
Iraq’s ancient heritage = anti-Bush fantasyspeak for professionally looted archeological treasures dating from the early cradle civilization of the Judeo-Christian World -- not Iraq which was a colonial construct of the Brits after the World War I defeat and subsequent dismemberment of the corrupt and decaying Ottoman Empire.
trapped = Muslim fantasyspeak for describing an overwhelmingly successful invading army.
vital role = American fuzzball for an assignment similar to checking coats and parking cars to be given to its international opponents.
a very innovative way of war = Muslim fantasyspeak for achieving victories on the battlefield merely by announcing them with the expectation that the announcement will be carried seriously by sympathetic media.
:: James Baar 4/19/2003 04:31:00 PM [+] ::
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