Word: vietspeak
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...scars that cannot readily be mended. "War does things to the language," as New York Times Columnist Russell Baker warned, "and the language in revenge refuses to cooperate in helping us to understand what we are talking about." The language has also taken its revenge at home, from the Vietspeak of "fragging" and "pacification" to the home-brewed jargon of "pigs" and "fascist conspiracies." The campuses have again begun to turn silent (as in the '50s), not in a spirit of tranquillity but with a sense of impotence and self-interest. The rage of the antiwar demonstrators has dissipated...
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