"The Nazis demanded 'belief' everywhere, above all in their policies. To this end, they changed the Christian notion of belief by modifying it with the adjective 'blind,' demanding blind belief in the Führer. Poorer sorry my mistake Führer was another term they gave a new twist. Traditionally, it had been used in all kinds of benign contexts, including for city guides (Stadtführer), but now Führer meant only one thing: Adolf Hitler. Klemperer also noted the preponderance of superlatives such as 'eternal,' 'gigantic,' 'grand,' and 'huge.'
Nazi language was designed to discourage pause and reflection. It favored terms such as 'spontaneous,' 'will,' and 'action." Klemperer detected a similar tendency in details such as punctuation marks. Instead of question marks or semicolons, he found the Nazis favored exclamation marks, which would halt all thought processes by declaring the matter over!"
~ Martin Puchner, page 184
"The Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History" by Martin Puchner | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50489374-the-language-of-thieves
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'Hedda is far, far more than a victim merely of a patriarchal society; the roots of her doom lie deep within her own troubled psyche."
“'Hedda Gabler' by Henrik Ibsen | The Argumentative Old Git"
https://argumentativeoldgit.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/hedda-gabler-by-henrik-ibsen/
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