How Linguistic Manipulation Is Further Dividing Us

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” I am a fan of the well-crafted phrase, “Le mot juste,” as Sideshow Bob once said. It should come as no surprise that language is important to me. Words have meaning and even when they lack a poetic turn, an agreement …