The Vocabulary of Distrust: How Elite English Hands the Audience to Populists
Comparing English with his native Hebrew, Yaniv Regev argues that the people most alarmed by populism are feeding it, one prestigious word at a time. Hebrew leaves little room for a class dialect; English has a grander synonym for nearly everything, which America’s educated class wears as a badge of rank. Populists speak plainly on purpose and win the audience the elites talk past.
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