They would probably have to continue reading and go back to it and try to put it together, and even like that not many people would have the correct words for it. KIA means killed in action. When families were told that their family members were killed in action they would just simply said that they were KIA. .
The language used in paragraph 13 of Dehumanizing People and Euphemizing War mentions how America should be prepared for "low-intensity conflict", when people hear or read those words they immediately think that nothing tremendously big is going to happen. The last thing that people will think when they hear those words is that a war is going to happen. What they don't know is that those words mean exactly that; a war is about to happen. Also in this paragraph the author is trying to hide the truth by phrasing the actual statement incorrectly. It's not that the statement is false, it's just that they are not using the correct words, which one again makes it difficult for the people to understand what is actually going on.
Once again in this paragraph of When Words Go to War they try to make the best of the bad things. In the other story they hide the truth more but in this story they try to make the negative things into positive things such as the war. Everyone knows that war is not something that is positive, but in this story however they make it seem like it. They say such things as, "Thanks to the war, the world now knows that a "berm" is a sand wall, and that a "new world order" is around the corner" (Paragraph 7). Things that they mention is non-relevant things that we don't need to know and if we do know them it is not something unnecessary. .
The language surprises people when they know what the words that they refer to actually means. In the story they are talking about war but if someone picked a few words out of the story, the person reading them won't think that they are about war.
The sociology of knowledge investigates human actions, habits, institutions, social roles and controls, legitimizations and reifications (dehumanization of the human products) (Berger and Luckmann 1967:89). ...