Common Language

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“The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)