Unspeak

Through my reading, i have discovered the author Steven Poole. He’s a fairly young author and what he’s been writing about has caught my interest. He runs a web blog called “unspeak“. Unspeak is how he describes language that is used to essentially cover up, or put a positive spin on a negative thing. For example, pro-choice is the name of pro-abortionists. They use the name pro-choice because it has less negative connotations than the name pro-abortionists. This kind of language is commonly used by politicians and people in power. Poole has written a book, also called “Unspeak”, which i am currently reading.

I find this kind of stuff really interesting, and entertaining as the tone the blog, and book, is written in is somewhat humorous. As i read more of the book, i will post some interesting excerpts.

Alex.