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The new interpretation is but one way to help rediscover and reappropriate that spiritual heritage. Language is shown to be unreliable and unstable, so that "its disarticulation and contrapuntal arrangement of bodies, voices, and words ironically reappropriate S. Douglas claims that these images spawned the "pig" epithet, which eventually led to the police force's attempt to reappropriate the name as a self-congratulatory acronym: PIG (Pride, Integrity, Guts). |
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