This column from the Sunday Seattle Post-Intelligencer deserves broad dissemination. I found it over at Peace Tree Farm.
We think in language. Language significantly affects the content of our thoughts. Thus, reshaping popular language provides a powerful tool to "win the hearts and minds" of the public. Political conservatives figured this out decades ago, but no one has employed language to influence public opinion more intentionally or cleverly than the Bush administration.
There's plenty more where those came from: go read.
Posted by Linkmeister at August 11, 2003 09:20 PMGood stuff, that's for certain. It's scary how language is being turned inside out.
Posted by: Scott at August 12, 2003 01:25 AMLove those Bushspeak words......
Posted by: toxiclabrat at August 12, 2003 08:28 AM