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Kiwi Life

Language

1 April 2023

9:00 AM

1 April 2023

9:00 AM

Australian journalist Miranda Devine (currently working on the New York Post) has drawn our attention to a new word ‘totting’. This is the English abbreviation of a German word totschweigetaktik. Both that impossible German word (and its English abbreviation) mean ‘death by silence’ and refers to a tactic employed to kill issues and news reports by simply ignoring them into non-existence.

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