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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > war, peace and terrorism > war and society > war in American culture > language and war

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language and war  

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  • Joseph Heller's book Catch-22 (1961) made famous the peculiar nature of military language. A World War II veteran, Heller invented characters who dealt with improbable combinations of words that led to officers named Major Major and tackled entirely new situations that seemingly exhausted the possibilities of the English language. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Language and War]

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