Um. I'm assuming that the quote about cops is missing a "don't" in the same way that Americans now use "could care less" to mean "couldn't care less." If she wants to talk about the perversion of language, how about complete reversal of meaning?
And while she's glorifying obscenities for their miraculous truth-revealing properties, I notice she doesn't mention their most prevalent use: as mindless, pointless, meaningless punctuation. If she wants to talk about the obscuring of truth, how about concealing it in a thicket of identical Anglo-Saxon mono- and disyllables?
She has a point about the euphemisms, as did George Orwell back in 1948. The rest of it, I think, is probably piffle.
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And while she's glorifying obscenities for their miraculous truth-revealing properties, I notice she doesn't mention their most prevalent use: as mindless, pointless, meaningless punctuation. If she wants to talk about the obscuring of truth, how about concealing it in a thicket of identical Anglo-Saxon mono- and disyllables?
She has a point about the euphemisms, as did George Orwell back in 1948. The rest of it, I think, is probably piffle.