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Prometheus 6

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Your Pocket Guide to Speaking Palin-guage (Vol. 1)
Posted September 3, 2008 | 03:12 PM (EST)

Up in the Twin Cities area folks are speaking a new language. Or, should I say Palinguage. It sounds sorta familiar because it's Latin based [P6: though see part two for a correction]. But different from the plain English we're used to speaking, in Palinguage recognizable words take on new meanings. Won't you take a moment to learn some Plainguage so you can talk like a hypocritical conservative?

REPEAT THE FOLLOWING:

If you're a minority and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "token hire." If you're a conservative and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "game changer."

If you live in an Urban area and you get a girl pregnant you're a "baby daddy." If you're the same in Alaska you're a "teen father." (Actually, according to your own MySpace page you're an F'n redneck that don't want any kids, but that's too long a phrase for the evil liberal media to take out of context and flog morning noon and night).

Black teen pregnancies? A "crisis" in black America. White teen pregnancies? A "blessed event."

Read the classics

This is as good a place as any to remind us all to reread Orwell's essay, Politics and the English Language, which I should have known P6 was wise enough to post at some point. Well, we need to read it again. With Palinguistics and other propaganda in full swing, we can and will have fun for a while pointing out this or that instance of redefinition, newspeak, doublespeak... but collectively, it's an Orwellian rerun. Look, their lips are moving, which means they're redefining something. The real bottom line is who gets to be in charge (rather, stay in charge). Every speech, every image, every countrified rendition of The Star Spangled Banner during the Republican convention supported that.

BTW if this is first mention, I will take credit for coining "Palinguistics" as easier to say than Palinguage. ;-)

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