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Re:Why Content Is King by enriquto on Saturday December 19, 2020 @08:16AM (#25477219)
It's the epitome of wooden language.

Your example is very good for proving my point; the expression "without content" talks about what? about the content? So you would say "content without content" to speak about a text that does not have substantial content?

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Re:Why Content Is King by KineticLensman on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:01AM (#25478206)
> It's the epitome of wooden language

Exactly. See the comment elsewhere about Orwell's 1984. In which Newspeak [0] is "a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

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