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http://interglacial.com/pub/text/Umberto_Eco_-_Eternal_Fascism.html
"14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Newspeak was invented by Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the official language of what he called Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show."
Comment by zenchowdah at 15/10/2018 at 07:10 UTC
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Always up vote Eco.
Comment by CptNonsense at 15/10/2018 at 11:58 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
That implies intent
Comment by __NamasteMF__ at 15/10/2018 at 11:24 UTC
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I remember my way x husband yelling that I used big words just to confuse him.