An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language
Ali Almossawi & Alejandro Giraldo
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Introduction
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Rhetoric—how someone says something—can offer useful insight into their underlying assumptions
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Vagueness is at the heart of insincere language; it clouds thinking and it muddies meaning. As Orwell writes about vague terms, "The person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different."
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