Forget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against Iran

The following week, Trump posted on Truth Social: "Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags [ie, Iranians] today. They've been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!" The crudity, here, is the point. Sociolinguists say that the use of dysphemism violates social norms and taboos, and Trump is nothing if not the taboo-buster-in-chief...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/trump-using-dysphemism-language-against-iran

 

BREAKING: US Supreme Court drops SHOCK ruling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyhKrZIV9DY

Jordan Peterson’s Misuse of Religious Language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Ckcuu5eNA

 

This is not why people use they/them pronouns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KqsoQg1yUY

 

How Cults Use Language to Control | Otherwords

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGTT_Vy_Bw

 

Communicating your Gen Alpha kid: Learn some Gen Alpha slang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d44oGSpvTQk

Ohio Republicans approve misleading ballot language to favor gerrymandering

At issue is how to describe a proposal that would create a 15-person citizen commission to draw congressional and state legislative districts in Ohio. The commission – five Democrats, five Republicans and five independents – would be prohibited from drawing districts that "that favor one political party and disfavor others". 

But the language approved on Friday by the Republican-controlled Ohio ballot board misrepresents the proposal – instead leading voters to think they have less power in the process. It says the commissioners would be "required to gerrymander the boundaries of state legislative and congressional districts to favor the two largest political parties in the state of Ohio"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/16/ohio-republicans-gerrymandering-proposal

Backers of Arizona abortion rights amendment sue over language in voter pamphlet | Reuters

Arizona for Abortion Access, the group behind the ballot measure, in its lawsuit asked the Maricopa County Superior Court for an order requiring the Arizona Legislative Council, a committee of lawmakers overseeing the pamphlet, to adopt "impartial" language. The group said "fetus" would be "a neutral, objective, and medically accurate term uniformly used by medical professionals and government agencies."…

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/backers-arizona-abortion-rights-amendment-sue-over-language-voter-pamphlet-2024-07-10/

Ohio court rules term unborn child can remain in abortion ballot language

A spokesperson for Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights said in a statement Tuesday that this was another attempt by the ballot board to "mislead voters." 

"Issue 1 is clearly and concisely written to protect Ohioans' right to make our own personal health care decisions about contraception, pregnancy, and abortion, free from government interference," Lauren Blauvelt said. "The actual amendment language communicates that right clearly and without distortion."…

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ohio-court-rules-term-unborn-child-can-remain-abortion-ballot-language-rcna106310

The removal of ‘Maus’ from a middle-school curriculum reflects an old debate, not a new one - The Washington Post

"It is intensely weird in a deeply American way to take an award-winning book about the mass murder of millions of people and fret over eight bad words and a naked mouse."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/27/maus-removal-old-debate/

Exploring The Human Voice (Fresh Air podcast)

We talk with 'New Yorker' writer John Colapinto, author of 'This Is the Voice,' about how voices work, how they evolved in our prehistoric ancestors, how babies learn to vocalize words of their parents' languages so quickly, and what makes voices sexy or authoritative. Colapinto's own vocal injury led him to explore this subject.

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/960350566/exploring-the-human-voice

Analysis: For Republicans, profanity is suddenly scandalous - ABC News

Over the course of four years, the nation's capital has careened from crisis to crisis. There was the travel ban, the investigation into Russian interference in an election, the firing of an FBI director, a 35-day government shutdown, dismissals of Cabinet secretaries via tweet, impeachment and a historic pandemic that forced the president to be hospitalized. And then there was the Glamour interview. Jen O'Malley Dillon, President-elect Joe Biden's campaign manager and incoming deputy chief of staff, referred to congressional Republicans as “f——ers” in a conversation with the magazine. And Washington was again in a tizzy.....
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/analysis-republicans-profanity-suddenly-scandalous-74815850

14 most common words and phrases you're probably saying wrong

Many times, especially in business settings, people use words that they think they know — but don’t. Although they do this in an effort to sound intelligent and sophisticated, it backfires badly, because even one small slipup can cause an audience to focus on only that, not the speaker’s ideas. As writers of several grammar books, here are some of the most commonly confused and misused words and phrases in American English:....
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/28/14-words-and-phrases-you-probably-been-saying-wrong-this-whole-time.html

China's rulers face a new type of dissent - CSMonitor.com

For democracy activists, hatred in the face of state violence hasn’t worked very well. China’s Mongolian minority – now being forced to adopt Han culture – is trying new approaches. https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2020/0904/China-s-rulers-face-a-new-type-of-dissent

Trump’s incendiary language: President has used all 12 kinds of communication that lead to acts of violence – Raw Story

Donald Trump’s tweet the week before last that the 75-year old man who was shoved to the ground by police in Buffalo and wound up in the intensive care unit “could be an ANTIFA provocateur” was just one latest example of Trump’s use of language to demonize others. https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/trumps-incendiary-language-president-has-used-all-12-kinds-of-communication-that-lead-to-acts-of-violence/

Google Assistant Can Now Translate Languages on Your Phone | WIRED

Interpreter Mode comes to iOS and Android, making it easier to converse somewhat seamlessly across language barriers.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-assistant-can-now-translate-on-your-phone/

7 ways to build your child's vocabulary - The Conversation US

The earliest years of children's lives represent some of the best opportunities to expand their vocabulary and language skills.....
https://theconversation.com/7-ways-to-build-your-childs-vocabulary-112370

Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment

From now, house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/17/why-the-guardian-is-changing-the-language-it-uses-about-the-environment

Prairie dogs' language decoded by scientists | CBC News

Human-animal translation devices may be available within 10 years, researcher says ....
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/prairie-dogs-language-decoded-by-scientists-1.1322230

What is your mom's catchphrase? - AskReddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ayd660/what_is_your_moms_catchphrase/