Author: Jim Guirard
Source: FamilySecurityMatters.org -- September 1, 2006
Each year at about this time, several major dictionaries and assorted wordsmiths and lexicographers identify and define new words and phrases which have achieved -- or may soon be achieving -- "dictionary status."
Looking forward to next year's list of such new semantic tools which "make it" into Merriam-Webster's, the Oxford English Dictionary and others, here are a number of candidates from the TrueSpeak Institute -- a center-right initiative devoted to truth-in-language and truth-in-history in public discourse, founded and led by the author of this article.
This first article of a two-part series presents fifteen useful new English language terms -- some geo-political, some sociopolitical, some environmental, some economic -- which do not currently appear in any major dictionary.
Its sequel will be focused on the War on al Qaeda-style Terrorism and will present a similar number of Arabic and Islamic terms which usually do appear (albeit often mis-defined) in various Arab language dictionaries and glossaries and which should now be entered into and correctly defined for anti-Terrorism purposes, as well.
Here is the first assortment -- several of which will help to pull down some of the ancient Cold War euphemisms and semantic masks behind which many supposedly "progressive" (codeword for steadily moving toward socialism) people and political movements have long hidden their real nature:
communoids -- so-called "former" communists who have never formally and convincingly denounced Marxism-Leninism and who may still be communists at heart, but are no longer called that. Clearly, Russia's increasingly autocratic Vladimir Putin (who as late as four years ago was still toasting "the memory of Zhugashvili," a.k.a. Josep Stalin!) is a prime case in point.
Cubazuela -- a short-hand new name for modern-day Venezuela, a former South American democracy which is now "another Cuba" -- led by another Comandante-for-life tyrant, Hugo Chavez. In the same vein, "Cubaragua" might be another new label in Central America if the oil-rich Castro-Chavez conspiracy is able to wedge the "Sandinistas" -- President Reagan called them "Stalinistas," instead -- back into power in Managua.
diplunacy -- UN-style diplomacy which is so "loony" as to have concocted at various times (a) the infamous "Oil For Food" conspiracy in Iraq, (b) the selection of Fidel Castro's Cuba as Chair of the so-called "Non-aligned Movement," (c) the selection of Muammar Qaddafi's Libya as Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights and (d) the selection of Saddam Hussein's Iraq as Chair of the UN Commission on Disarmament.
eeekology -- scare-tactics environmentalism of the Greenpeace and Al Gore variety, with an emphasis on environmental bad news and a deliberate, pseudo-scientific black-out of all environmental good news and of any serious challenge to the "global warming" scam.
eeekonomics -- scare-tactics socio-economics, as in the left-wing Democrats' and the media's practice of deliberately and repeatedly frightening the elderly about Social Security, the poor about food stamps or school lunches, the general public about jobs and about the steadily growing but always "headed in the wrong direction" economy as a whole.
fascist-left -- the single-party, police-state socialist Left -- namely, individuals or regimes of Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist, Castroite and "Islamo-fascist" persuasions. (Although the "fascist" label is always regarded as right-wing, both Mussolini and Hitler were socialists and, therefore, leftists to the core.) This is actually a logical extension of reactionary-Left and ultra-"progressive" tendencies of most Big Government liberals.
outforcing -- a corollary to the current "outsourcing" of jobs to foreign lower priced labor, with "outforcing" being traceable to many of the high-taxation, over-regulation, anti-profits, anti-corporate, anti-drilling, not-in-my-backyard policies and practices which tend to cause outsourcing.
properganda -- proactively disseminated information which, although selectively pro-America and pro-Democracy in total content, meets the basic standards of truthfulness and accuracy, as contrasted to "propaganda's" implications of deliberate untruth, spin, deceit and disinformation.
Theology of Liberty - a civil-libertarian, Judeo-Christian alternative to the Marxist-inspired, pseudo-religious scam of so-called Liberation Theology, eventually condemned by the late, great John Paul II as a communoid heresy. This new freedom-for-all "theology" consists of twenty-two (22) very specific human rights and civil liberties, all of which are either ignored or suppressed by the communists, the communoids, the fascist-left progressives and the Islamo-fascists alike.
AWOL -- a new acronym meaning Always Weak On Liberty, rather than the traditional "away without leave." (Examples: AWOL in Vietnam, Cuba, Cambodia, Tibet, Angola, Mozambique, Yemen, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Grenada, Chile, Panama, Kuwait, the Reagan-induced collapse of the Soviet Empire, the ongoing liberation and democratization of Iraq, etc.).
"ACE" Agitators -- Aid and Comfort to the Enemy politicians, journalists, academics and assorted Hollywood personalities who even in wartime have said far more vicious things about President Bush, VP Cheney and SecDef Rumsfeld than about the "Death to America" likes of Hussein, bin Laden, Castro or Chavez -- in ways which do, indeed, give great aid and comfort to the enemy.
Quondam Fi -- the Latin language antithesis of the US Marine Corps' slogan of "Semper Fi" (Semper Fidelis or Always Faithful) and meaning "Formerly" or "No Longer" Faithful to the Corps, as is clearly the case with Pennsylvania's "ACE" Congressman John Murtha.
Zellocrats -- lifelong Democrats who are no longer loyal to the Party but have not become either Independents or Republicans, and who now share many of the center-right sentiments expressed in the 2004 Presidential campaign by former Democratic US Senator Zell Miller of Georgia. (And might there now be found in a center-left subset of "Liebercrats" or Lieberublicans as well?)
As Mark Twain once said about the importance of selecting just the right word, "The difference between exactly the right word and one which slightly misses the mark is akin to the difference between lightning and a lightning bug" -- or words very much to that effect.
Hopefully, all of these proposed new words and labels will serve in due course as lightning strikes against the misguided policies and practices of those leftist ideologues which they are designed to unmask and to set right.
In the FSM sequel to follow, there will be a similar number of Arabic and Islamic words -- most of them religious in nature -- which we should take time to define correctly, to learn and to use in ways which belatedly begin to demonize Osama bin Laden and his kind as effectively as they are currently demonizing us.
A Washington DC-area writer, public speaker and anti-Terrorism strategist, Jim Guirard was longtime Chief of Staff to former US Senators Allen Ellender and Russell Long. His new TrueSpeak Institute is devoted to truth-in-language and truth-in-history in public discourse. Justcauses@aol.com 703-768-0957