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I've found yourself & Lorenzo very well read so I fear assuming you haven't heard of Viktor Klemperer & his book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…
For those who haven't encountered him, he is essentially the German George Orwell when it comes to analysing the misuse of language to advance ideology. Directly from the horse's mouth, written by a converted Jew in the middle of the 3rd Reich.
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I've found yourself & Lorenzo very well read so I fear assuming you haven't heard of Viktor Klemperer & his book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_%E2%80%93_Lingua_Tertii_Imperii
For those who haven't encountered him, he is essentially the German George Orwell when it comes to analysing the misuse of language to advance ideology. Directly from the horse's mouth, written by a converted Jew in the middle of the 3rd Reich.
I hadn’t heard of it, thank you for the reference.
Fascinating, thank you.