This is really interesting.

…. One egregious example is the use of “impact” as an all-purpose verb (when it is actually a noun). The philosopher Gregory Bateson was one of the first to recognize that the language of physics or mathematics — terms like “force” or “impact” from physics, or “positive,” “negative,” or “factor” from mathematics— are inappropriate for biological (including human or social) phenomena, simply because…
Fascism and the Corruption of Language
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Janice Harayda
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Jun 13, 2023
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This is really interesting. I've known Orwell's essay well for years, but hadn't thought about Bateson in that context.
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