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eppur_se_muova

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3. *SIGH* Steve Bannon's "gift" to the English language -- people now say "deconstruct" when ...

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sat Feb 4, 2023, 03:37 AM

Feb 2023

they mean "disassemble". "Deconstruct" originally had a wholly different meaning which Bannon, a pseudo-intellectual, confused with the meaning he wanted it to have. Reading anything he wrote uncovers truly cringeworthy examples of language abuse by someone who is always sure he knows what he is doing, evidence to the contrary.

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