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'Pollie' vs 'Politician' - does this reflect egalitarianism?
« on: July 28, 2015, 11:24:45 am »
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This article (see attachment) is from the Friday Herald Sun last week. Notice the lexeme 'Pollie', which is otherwise known as a morphological diminutive for the lexeme 'politician'. The reason I point this out is that it reflects Australia's value of egalitarianism.

According to Kel Richards, this is semantic solidarity but also the Australian way of using informality to puncture affectation and undercut authority: “This is verbal signage we belong to the same mob. Many an inflated, smug, syllable-heavy word gets a quick snip with the Aussie verbal scissors to reduce it to a bonsai version of its former self.”

Hint: ADD THIS TO YOUR ESSAY! :)

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