Fri, March 12, 2010

Political Language Around the Web

 

Scott Brown and the Blob

Posted 1 month, 1 week ago

Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts Senate race will not endure, writes Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal, “unless Republicans clearly understand the meaning of ‘the machine’ that he ran against and defeated.”

“Yes,” writes Henninger, “it is about a general revulsion at…

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Tweet It: Social Media Terms Dominate Top New Words

Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Forget wallet biopsies, death panels and Obamacare. Politics, it appears, is so last century. The words of 2009 are all about social media.

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The British Government’s Orwellian Attempt to Emulate Orwell

Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago

A British parliamentary committee report on the government’s use of jargon takes civil servants to task for using too much bloody bureaucratese.

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