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Bernardo de La Paz

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6. We get where you are going but Vlad is not an adjective

Reply to BeyondGeography (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 4, 2025, 06:27 PM

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Try "Sanewashers are going to sanewash Vlad". Or fascist-washers, but best if the adjective is a single syllable. Or "dic-washer" / "dict-washer" (dictator), but that is actually the opposite of your meaning. Maybe "saint-washing".

All from "white-washing" where white is an adjective (as in Tom Sawyer found a great way to avoid white-washing the fence). In many cases it's hard to come up with easily understood smooth flowing phraseology and I don't know the way here.

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