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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

how often do you encounter doublespeak?

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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Perhaps this is a cultural thing, but doublespeak seems to be prevalent even in casual conversation

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Which country? Orwell?

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  Just going to leave this here…
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  Denmark actually. It’s a couple of years ago he said it.

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