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85politically correct language: "The destruction of words is a beautiful thing"
The above quote from ‘1984’ originally referred to the diminishing vocabulary of ‘Newspeak’, the politically correct language in Orwell’s famous dystopia. Applied to ‘Santa Speak’, it...
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49Learn Spanish with King Juan Carlos I
Lesson 1: "¡Porque no te Callas!?" = "Why don't you shut up" This little phrase is at the heart of a political storm that shows no signs of dying down. The scene of the crime was the latest summit of...
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61Mind your Language (travelling on the road to peace)
One often wonders how world politics and international relations hinge on world leaders’ likes and dislikes for one another. Is personal chemistry a key ingredient of diplomacy and therefore a condition for...
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