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There’s a new post on the Web of Language: Noah Webster's Word of the Year for 1828 was 'torture' too.
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It’s December, and time to choose the Word of the Year, the word or phrase that represents the very best of 2014. That’s a heavy burden for a year full of very worsts, from <em class="">ISIS, Boko Haram, </em>and the <em class="">Pakistani Taliban </em>to <em class="">Ebola,
Hands up! Don’t shoot, </em>and <em class="">I can’t breathe</em>. The promising <em class="">Arab Spring</em> has faded, not so gracefully, into the <em class="">Arab Winter</em>, and the <em class="">umbrella protests </em>in Hong Kong this Fall did little
to improve the climate of democracy in China.</p>
<div class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Speaking of winter, December brought</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><em style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">enhanced
interrogation techniques, </em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">or</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><em style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">EITs, </em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">back
into our vocabulary</span><em style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">. </em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">This
euphemism for torture resurfaced with the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA detention and questioning of terror suspects. Coming as it does at the end of a year of one bad thing after another,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><em style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">torture </em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">is
my choice for the 2014 Word of the Year: it’s the epitome of what went wrong, not just with counterterrorism, but with everything.</span> </div>
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