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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Murdered and abducted, newspeak nobody.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Unalived" might be a euphemism that's only necessary on certain social media to avoid censorship nowadays, but people were using the term "disappearing" (especially as a transitive verb) during Chile's Pinochet regime, if not earlier.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Disappear" used in that way is not new. Unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

especially as a calque of desaparecido

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Unalive and disappear don't change the meaning of the thought, and they circumvent ideological restrictions that intent to restrict thought. This is opposite the effect of newspeak.