On Translating Securityspeak into English
In the Land of False Cognates
Carson, Kevin
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/28/on-translating-securityspeak-into-english/Publisher: CounterPunch
Date Written: 28/08/2012
Year Published: 2012
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX14500
The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal truth, rather than convey them.
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