Former Philadelphia cop and one-time English teacher Jim Vanore gives a lesson on how American English is being misused for political ends.
He begins:
I want to originate a new word. I think I still have the right to do that in this country. Try though they do, the forces of dictatorship have not yet completely suspended my right of free speech.
When I taught junior high English, I wanted the students to understand the difference betweendenotation versus connotation, because dictators are clever in the way they initiate a bloodless coup: They can simply insist that a word’s connotation becomes its denotation.
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