Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/30
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Didn't mean for com'n off as a smart-axx. Just thought everyone sort knew the
def' as the word has been thrown around the halls of congress and all quite a
number of decades.
dis0in0for0ma0tion (d¾s-¾n1fúr-mE2shún) n.
1. Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a
government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public
opinion or the government in another nation: ³He would be the unconscious
channel for a piece of disinformation aimed at another country's intelligence
service² (Ken Follett).
2. Dissemination of such misleading information.
‹attributive.
Often used to modify another noun: disinformation operations; disinformation
experts.
[Possibly translation of Russian dezinformatsiya.]
> George, you smart-axx! Ain't got no gxxdamm Mac. Watsit say?
>
> Seth LaK 9
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