[spam][crazy][wrong] inventing mean words

[Douglas Lucas]

Check 1974 _The Dispossessed_ by Ursula K. Le Guin. There's a scene 
where the protagonist and physicist Shevek, when he goes to the biz 
planet Urras, is slowly getting co-opted during his time confined at the 
university, and during that time, he has dinner with one of the 
academics. that academic's name is Ollie(sp). Shevek is surprised that 
Ollie at home is gentle with his family etc and they have a conversation 
about the differences in animals on their respective homeworlds and some 
other things and they address various issues of harm and boss-talk and 
it's a pretty interesting scene. The Dispossessed is widely available on 
pirate sites online.

On 3/6/22 14:56, Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote:
> how can we invent an infinite quantity of boss-speak?
> 
> boss has experience of horror being normal, and assumes everybody else does.
> 
> boss also has experience of always covering this up, and assumes
> everybody else does.
> 
> idea of analogies developing by assumption of harm, then using these analogies.
> 
> but we want to pick analogies that have a certain poignancy to them.
>