{"id":52012,"date":"2015-03-17T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52012"},"modified":"2015-03-17T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T10:55:12","slug":"silent-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52012","title":{"rendered":"Silent Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winning the battle for the English Language is always a challenge when you’re a conservative. The left understands, and wages without mercy, the war for the language.<\/p>\n

And for the most part, the media reflects the left’s view of how language portrays things.<\/p>\n

So it’s been interesting watching the media coverage of the raft of Gun Rights bills. \u00a0In a Twin Cities media that will refers to using ones’ carry permit as “packing heat” so frequently it’s beyond satirizable, there’ve been some improvements.<\/p>\n

This past few weeks, a bill that would allow Minnesotans to join 39 other states in owning mufflers for their guns has been advancing though committee.<\/p>\n

And it’s been interesting reading the headlines that local news organizations having been using for the story (in this case taken from online coverage); do they refer to gun mufflers with techical accuracy as “suppressors”, or with conspiratorial, theatrical scaremongering as “silencers”.<\/p>\n

Here are some examples, with emphasis added by me:<\/p>\n