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It’s worse in Canada but the alt left is working hard at catching up.
Time for a bit of not so much fun. All and sundry: Let’s please review a cafeteria scene between colleagues from the 1984 production of George Orwell’s, “1984“.
Winston Smith: “How’s the Newspeak Committee?”
Colleague: “Working overtime.”
[Background – … butter, two percent, milk, three percent {unintelligible} eight percent, {unintelligible} three percent…]
Colleague: “Plusbig waste is in adjectives. Plusbig problem is timing the language to scientific commands.”
Winston: “Yes.”
Colleague: “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
You won’t have seen the Dictionary, tenth edition yet, Smith.” [Holds thumb and forefinger well over two inches apart]
“It’s that thick.
The eleventh edition will be that thick.” [Holds thumb and forefinger little more than a half-inch inch apart]
Winston Smith: “So the Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
Colleague: “The secret’s to move from translation, to direct thought, to automatic response.
No need for self-discipline. Language coming from here.” [Pointing to forehead, as in not from the heart.]
GOT IT?!?
Please permit me to quote from, “The Principles of Newspeak“.
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To give a single example – The word free still existed in Newspeak, but could only be used in such statements as “The dog is free from lice” or “This field is free from weeds.” It could not be used in its old sense of “politically free” or “intellectually free,” since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless. Quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself, and no word that could be dispensed with was allowed to survive. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.
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Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government…
It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping to the sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink. A full translation could only be an ideological translation, whereby Jefferson’s words would be changed into a panegyric on absolute government.
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AGAIN, GOT That?!?
Donald Trump notwithstanding, we are headed into an era of Politically Correct speech that will be the DEATH of America’s Second Amendment in The United States of America and all other places in the world do not resist with virulent force.
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It’s worse in Canada but the alt left is working hard at catching up.
Time for a bit of
not so much fun. All and sundry: Let’s please review a cafeteria scene between colleagues from the 1984 production of George Orwell’s, “1984“.Winston Smith: “How’s the Newspeak Committee?”
Colleague: “Working overtime.”
[Background – … butter, two percent, milk, three percent {unintelligible} eight percent, {unintelligible} three percent…]
Colleague: “Plusbig waste is in adjectives. Plusbig problem is timing the language to scientific commands.”
Winston: “Yes.”
Colleague: “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
You won’t have seen the Dictionary, tenth edition yet, Smith.” [Holds thumb and forefinger well over two inches apart]
“It’s that thick.
The eleventh edition will be that thick.” [Holds thumb and forefinger little more than a half-inch inch apart]
Winston Smith: “So the Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
Colleague: “The secret’s to move from translation, to direct thought, to automatic response.
No need for self-discipline. Language coming from here.” [Pointing to forehead, as in not from the heart.]
GOT IT?!?
Please permit me to quote from, “The Principles of Newspeak“.
——————————————————————
To give a single example – The word free still existed in Newspeak, but could only be used in such statements as “The dog is free from lice” or “This field is free from weeds.” It could not be used in its old sense of “politically free” or “intellectually free,” since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless. Quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself, and no word that could be dispensed with was allowed to survive. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.
…
Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government…
It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping to the sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink. A full translation could only be an ideological translation, whereby Jefferson’s words would be changed into a panegyric on absolute government.
——————————————————————
AGAIN, GOT That?!?
Donald Trump notwithstanding, we are headed into an era of Politically Correct speech that will be the DEATH of America’s Second Amendment in The United States of America and all other places in the world do not resist with virulent force.