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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Ocupación

Embedding

Sensitive Site Exploitation

Hot Contact Point

Blue On Blue

Eye-raq

Rapid Dominance

Fixing

Breaking the China


Mouseholing

Strike Package

Regime Target

Mercenaries

Doublespeak

 

 

Fixing

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

The US and British forces surrounding the southern towns of Nassiriya and Basra are, the military tell us, fixing them. This does not mean they are already engaged in repairing buildings damaged in battle. Rather, they have sealed off the perimeters to neutralise any Iraqi troops still inside the towns without having to risk engaging them in potentially costly street fighting, so that the main advance can continue north towards Baghdad.

 




 

 

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