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To: Gopher Broke
Folks who listen to Obama speak may feel uplifted

That's what it is, Obamaspeak. Very much like Newspeak in Orwell's 1984:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: " Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it is described as being "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year." Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an appendix[1] in which the basic principles of the language are explained. Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking ("thoughtcrime") or speech impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on. One character says admiringly of the shrinking volume of the new dictionary: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

For more on the principles of Newspeak, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

38 posted on 02/20/2008 10:29:13 AM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!

one thing out of this

surely now we can get rid of the racist policy of affirmative action seeing as a black man can now be spo near to the presidency or will michelle obama say that the blacks need that policy as a black person cannot get ahead without it


39 posted on 02/20/2008 10:30:33 AM PST by manc
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