« After getting involved in commissions to completely reform the language, I gave up. Too many words posed intractable problems. A doctor, a sailor, a junk, became a medicine, a navy, a junk. A great woman couturier could not bear to be called a great seamstress. Amateur became amateur, hello sexism ... He's an expert, she's an expert. A runner, a runner? A public man, a public woman? Even worse. (Ch. V THE CAMP OF SEINS p. 205) »
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Laurent Obertone
France's Big Brother |
Laurent Obertone
France's Big Brother
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« On some "sensitive" topics, censorship - robots that react to banned words - removes more than 95% of comments ("Le Parisien," July 18, 2014). When popular anxiety seeks to express itself, we send our robot cleaners. (Ch. IV JOURNALITRISM p. 174) »
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Laurent Obertone
France's Big Brother |
Laurent Obertone
France's Big Brother
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« The fact that 27% of young French people support the Islamic State (ICM) must remain in your mind a detail. Better a beheading than an amalgam. `...` We are able to turn the beheading of a Frenchman into a giant campaign against Islamophobia, and you will not flinch. (Ch. IV JOURNALITARISM p. 168-169) »
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Laurent Obertone
France's Big Brother |
Laurent Obertone
France's Big Brother
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