When we blog about politics, we often talk about how politicians use and misuse language to their own ends, as in Bagehot here, or Charlemagne here.
It's not amnesty, and Mr Frum is simply goading the nativist rabble by choosing to misuse language in this way.
Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media have made a different choice: They have thrown speakers who misuse language off their sites.
What of media outlets that have misused language about mental health?The Sun's infamous headline "BONKERS BRUNO LOCKED UP" is described by Nightingale as a "milestone moment" owing to the overwhelming public outcry over its decision to put alliteration before consideration when reporting boxer Frank Bruno's mental health problems.
When left to themselves, students tend to avoid cognitive conflict [ 84, 85], display faulty logic, produce inconsistent arguments, and, as newcomers to medical discourse, frequently misuse language [ 24, 44, 86].
Similarly, "no more" can be construed as a question: "Why more this-than-that?" (v) The skeptic misuses language and uses it in a loose way (PH 1.191).
The society hopes to "ensure that imprecise or misused technical language is not included" in a new law, says FASEB president Ralph Yount, a biochemist at Washington State University in Pullman.
Even the technical, linguistically oriented "Rectification of Names" is liberally sprinkled with comments about the adverse social consequences attending the abuse and misuse of language.
No, we misuse the only language we have to close the distance between us in order to maintain the very falsehoods that strand us in flimsy private myths.
"She has been living in a dictatorship which constantly misused and abused language, and this has forced a sort of scepticism in her regarding the use of words, the use of language," he said.
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