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Katana314
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Katana314@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-09 |
This is a word that only exists in a language I made up for a story. But, I find it interesting. And, in this world, there's no direct translation in English (or, the book's stand-in for English). Basically, the word means "one who fictionalizes their own enemies, in order to justify their violence." Imagine, say, a warlord who organizes a squadron to put on masks and uniforms of an enemy, and then raids a village - so that they can then publically condemn this enemy, and have support from that village for taxing them and gathering up their own troops to retaliate. I could see the community deciding fictional words shouldn't count, but even should this be the case, it evokes the need for such a word in language. |
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