| Excerpt from the tweet quoted in the article from Asha Rangappa who is retweeting Patrick Tucker: >"Derkach, Kilimnick, and their associates sought to use prominent US persons and media conduits to launder their narratives to US officials and audiences..." Now, I don't know if any of this is true or not... In fact, I don't know any of these people... But that's not the point! You see, as an amateur linguist (I know, "keep the day job!" <g>), I am always on the look out for new buzzwords, new catch phrases, new lingo... Before this article (or more specifically, the quoted retweet), I had never seen the words "launder" and "narrative" used adjacently (or very close to adjacently), that is, "launder their narratives". Phrasing those two concepts in language more succinctly, one gets: "Narrative Laundering" Which is my (linguistic!) takeaway from this article... So, that term -- is going into my 2021 lexicon! "Narrative Laundering" (It sort of fits alongside such other words/terminology as "Fake News", "Making Mountains Out Of A Molehills", "Memory Hole", "De Minimis", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Revisionism", "Damnatio Memoriae", "Conflation", etc.) |