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Ezana (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 02:41 PM Original message |
Misspeak ? I could not find it in the dictionary. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm glad to see someone else is paying attention to what's going on with the language |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. Earliest I remember it is during the Reagan era -- He who had the wonderful memory (remembering |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's right next to "transformational" |
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Holly_Hobby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
4. From Urban Dictionary |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
5. it's a word invented for politicians when they fail to tell the truth...aka lying |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. You hit the nail on the head. Just another corner of the most successful propaganda machine |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 03:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Misspeak is an example of Newspeak |
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flowomo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
8. of course it's in the dictionary: |
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rock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
9. Try this |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
10. Here: |
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