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Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle
Au contraire the poet who is little, the destruction of English in the US is not being carried forward by Black American, Latinos or any of the other "minority" groups there -- it is being perpetrated by the oligarchs who run that benighted land. Two examples shall suffice:
1) The tendency to talk about people and human relations in corporate terms -- people "self-actualising" or groups "negotiating their position" relative to each other; "prioritizing" your life and taking your children out to their "play-group" for some "directed quality time", etc...
2) The insistence by government on making up simple terms with which to encapsulate complex ideas and issues: "weapons of mass destruction" (the bad things other people have, unlike the biological/chemical/nuclear arsenal we have); "insurgents" (not rebels); "homeland security"; "the war on terror"; "the war on drugs"; and on and on and on....
It would be so refreshing, and more than a little honest, to see President Bush stand up in front of the microphone and declare, "Me and my dogs is gonna pop a cap up the *** of any ******-****** who comes rock our crib! Gonna air out their *** with some kick-*** hardware, y'hear!"
Oh...to get back on topic:
I conassign to Mordor anyone who uses more than two acronyms in the same sentence.
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Ah! So you're talking about
political-ese. I quite agree.
Euphemism to sell something hard to stomach. Lor' please bring back the rhetoric of a Winston Churchill (we shall stand on the beaches, in the cities, etc.) or at least a Roosevelt (nothing to fear but fear itself), or at the very least a Reagan (make my day).
But don't blame all Americans for this guy in the White House who doesn't know how to talk!
Edit: And I hereby conassign the above italicized terms and what they mean to Mordor.