L.I.E.S.    Language in Extreme Situations

A web against the use of Language as a Weapon of Mass Deception

 

 

 

COLLATERAL LANGUAGE
A Glossary to Understand (and Avoid) the Language of Mass Deception



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Mercenaries

(Source: «Language of war. Decoding the jargon of war», Nicholas Watt and Rory McCarthy,The Guardian)

A gratifying colourful foray into the grey world of military jargon by the Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. Contrasting the hordes of American and British troops attacking Umm Qasr and Nassiriya with the Iraqi "heroes" defending the towns, he told reporters: "Those mercenaries and hired guns are seeing death in front of them ... We have drawn them into a quagmire and they will never get out of it."

 

 

 

 

 




 

 

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