December 2010
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The Attack on Languague
Do you ever do that thing when you don’t say what you mean? It’s fun, isn’t it? And it comes in lots of guises. The most apparent is lying. Ooh, that’s a bit of a dark one, but then there’s white lies, yay! Of course, we can’t leave out the rest. Sarcasm, irony, metaphor, allegory, allusion, simile, litotes, subtext, euphemism, double-entendre and French. The...
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“The leaders of Myanmar and Belarus, or Thailand and Russia, can now rightly say...”
– Clay Shirky, Internet guru