https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-war-of-meaningless-words-11592757588
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https://apkmetro.com/a-war-of-meaningless-words/
might be free after tomorrow, in todays print edition
this link works
https://apkmetro.com/a-war-of-meaningless-words/
ruth or consequences? “When I use a word,” says Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” In other words, anything he wants it to mean. Prescient. Today words are abused and truth has become so debased that no one believes anything anymore.
It started off Art Linkletter-like: Politicians say the darnedest things. You know—the definition of “is,” uranium yellowcake, if you like your doctor, the size of inauguration crowds