[KarlKemp]

Sounds like a civilized country, with maybe a Mosley-shaped exception. And your method does a far better job to show how harebrained all these sounds-like-everything-comments are. (Which I am having considerable trouble believing, but maybe it's a language thing)

[FooBarBizBazz]

To give away the joke, my post should be read in the stereotyped voice of a British conservative with a mustache and harrumphing. Maybe not a full-on "fascist" (the Mosley sympathies I have projected onto him notwithstanding), but also very much not the person that Eco, or the people who want to use this ammunition, would want to lionize.

Also, some of the statements in my post, like (6), are at direct odds with what's currently trendy to say.

The main point, though, is that although I like Umberto Eco, this article has still never made a lot of sense to me.