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To: The Great RJ

Yep. Pare away the many different meanings of words, ostensibly to streamline it, but more truthfully, to confine the ability of language to express a concept that deviates from the government’s decree of what language should be allowed to express and how it can be expressed.

Heck, even “Salad” might have to be excised from the “Liberal Newspeak Dictionary”, because it implies there could be food other than healthy/approved vegetarian dishes.


38 posted on 05/01/2017 9:54:04 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: rlmorel
Even as you and I write this, I can just see the thought process, somewhere, from someone:

"..Unquestionably insert name here will be vaporized, Winston thought again. He thought it with a kind of sadness, although well knowing that insert name here despised him and slightly disliked him, and was fully capable of denouncing him as a thought-criminal if he saw any reason for doing so. There was something subtly wrong with insert name here. There was something that he lacked: discretion, aloofness, a sort of saving stupidity. You could not say that he was unorthodox. He believed in the principles of Ingsoc, he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach. Yet a faint air of disreputability always clung to him. He said things that would have been better unsaid, he had read too many books, he frequented the Chestnut Tree Cafe, haunt of painters and musicians. There was no law, not even an unwritten law, against frequenting the Chestnut Tree Cafe, yet the place was somehow ill-omened. The old, discredited leaders of the Party had been used to gather there before they were finally purged. Goldstein himself, it was said, had sometimes been seen there, years and decades ago. insert name here's fate was not difficult to foresee. And yet it was a fact that if insert name here grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he would betray him instantly to the Thought Police. So would anybody else, for that matter: but insert name here more than most. Zeal was not enough. Orthodoxy was unconsciousness..."

41 posted on 05/01/2017 10:00:35 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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