Kathianne
08-31-2023, 10:28 PM
They mean something, until they don't:
https://www.racket.news/p/tracking-orwellian-change-new-meanings
Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of "Deep State" and "Working Class"When left/liberal fixations fall out of establishment favor, they're re-christened as conservative menaces
MATT TAIBBI
AUG 29, 2023
Retired perfect killing machine Jeff Bridges.
Thanks to a great response last week to an article about Klaus Schwab’s creep-tastic use of the term “transparency,” I’m pressing forward with a Devil’s Dictionary-style lexicographical project, tracking multitudinous dystopian alterations to American political speech.
I absolutely want the list to be a collaboration with Racket/Substack readers, so this and future entries will feature open comments sections. I see this list working best if it also functions as a usage tracker, à la the Oxford English Dictionary. The best gift my father ever gave me was a full OED, a monstrous rack of volumes that still sits devouring space in my house, daring me to look up the earliest recorded use of pecker in the impertinent sense (“1902 FARMER & HENLEY Slang”).
Here cites are important because they allow us to see how a 1966 use of transparency that meant people seeing sins of government turned into a 2023 usage meaning government seeking out the people’s sins. The more completely such changes are tracked, the more damning the lexicon.
Today’s theme involves once-embraced liberal terminology re-branded as right-wing and therefore infamous, false, or seditious:
...
https://www.racket.news/p/tracking-orwellian-change-new-meanings
Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of "Deep State" and "Working Class"When left/liberal fixations fall out of establishment favor, they're re-christened as conservative menaces
MATT TAIBBI
AUG 29, 2023
Retired perfect killing machine Jeff Bridges.
Thanks to a great response last week to an article about Klaus Schwab’s creep-tastic use of the term “transparency,” I’m pressing forward with a Devil’s Dictionary-style lexicographical project, tracking multitudinous dystopian alterations to American political speech.
I absolutely want the list to be a collaboration with Racket/Substack readers, so this and future entries will feature open comments sections. I see this list working best if it also functions as a usage tracker, à la the Oxford English Dictionary. The best gift my father ever gave me was a full OED, a monstrous rack of volumes that still sits devouring space in my house, daring me to look up the earliest recorded use of pecker in the impertinent sense (“1902 FARMER & HENLEY Slang”).
Here cites are important because they allow us to see how a 1966 use of transparency that meant people seeing sins of government turned into a 2023 usage meaning government seeking out the people’s sins. The more completely such changes are tracked, the more damning the lexicon.
Today’s theme involves once-embraced liberal terminology re-branded as right-wing and therefore infamous, false, or seditious:
...