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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Imperialist passive voice.

Side point but if I can just make fun of an Orwellism for the moment. He got it backwards when he thought that simplifying language (ala double-plus good) would become a tool of oppression. If anything we've seen that its the opposite, that imperialists use increasingly convoluted and indecipherable language, to obfuscate what should be simple statements.

Like, the art con-lang toki pona has only 120 words. Its nearly impossible to hide intentions, be subtle, or hide the subject and object like is done here.

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