Demagoguery in English

[shkrobius]

...Is (British) English capable of sustaining demagoguery

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[phyloxena]

"Я долго не верил, что по-английски можно сказать глупость" - Бродский.

[shkrobius]

Well said...

[seminarist]

We are talking about English language!

[shkrobius]

So US English would not work? Perhaps you are right. That was my last hope, though... The flowery orations of the latest coinage do ring false on my ears, I cannot help it. I'm not used to this high minded, unreflective messianism that is delivered in dead seriousness and soliciting - nay, demanding - endless hallelujah. It sounds like a caricature of a particularly dense Victorian parson who recently returned from a faraway imperial outpost.