Politics and the Canadian Language. What would Orwell say about our
curious brand of Newspeak?
The Senate expenses scandal, as the CBC now calls it, continues to grow,
while the language used to describe it continues to shrink: we have
fewer words to describe the scandal and those involved, and many of them
are clichés like "bombshell" and "house of cards."
Without an extensive and nuanced vocabulary, our media provide a narrow
and simplistic picture of events. Our own ability to think about those
events is similarly narrowed.
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