• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    4 days ago

    There was a story about a politician in the 19th or early 20th century who slandered an opponent by describing him using fancy words that were perfectly innocent but sounded sinister in context. His speech had sentences like “a tireless pedagogue known to associate with thespians” or similar.