To: Olog-hai
Well, like Newspeak, the new words are out to destroy the old and to narrow the thinking.I am basically in agreement with you.
Just wanted to present an additional nuance. It is namely not only through the reduction of vocabulary that discourse and thinking can be neutered.
Regards,
27 posted on
10/28/2017 7:06:12 AM PDT by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: alexander_busek
Oh, indeed. The more “bad” words, the more “crimethink” charges can be fabricated.
28 posted on
10/28/2017 7:09:39 AM PDT by
Olog-hai
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