VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to AntiTrumpAlliance@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTrump on Iran: At least 13 US service men and over 3400 Iranian service men, with an estimated 10,000 civilian casualties - including 168 school childrendiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square52linkfedilinkarrow-up1567arrow-down110
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minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoservicemen is all branches. soldiers is army, airmen is airforce, etc. they are using precise legal language for the US military. it’s literally the word they chose like, two hundred years ago i think?
minus-squarebtsax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoAlways feels newspeak-adjacent to me, idk
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agolegal language is practically newspeak so you aren’t wrong
servicemen is all branches. soldiers is army, airmen is airforce, etc. they are using precise legal language for the US military. it’s literally the word they chose like, two hundred years ago i think?
Always feels newspeak-adjacent to me, idk
legal language is practically newspeak so you aren’t wrong