The Guardian view on Trump’s civilisational threats: the words that fuel war must be condemned | Editorial
Military euphemisms can be deadly. Yet the brutal rhetoric of the US and Israel is proving still more lethal “Metaphors can kill,” the linguist George Lakoff wrote in an influential essay on the Gulf…
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Military euphemisms can be deadly. Yet the brutal rhetoric of the US and Israel is proving still more lethal “Metaphors can kill,” the linguist George Lakoff wrote in an influential essay on the Gulf war. “The use of a metaphor with a set of definitions becomes pernicious when it hides realities in a harmful way.” He described the effects of the US employment of business cost-and-benefit analogies, sporting comparisons and the fairytale of the just war with heroes and villains. All veiled the...
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