In message <c55593df.324c0%[email protected]>, dated Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Ken Javor <[email protected]> writes:
>This paragraph also shows the corrosive influence of poor terminology. >In fact, getting this from Mr. Woodgate, the pre-eminent sage of this >very large forum - stated with the utmost respect - in my mind confirms >the very real hypothesis of one of Mr. Woodgate's compatriots, the >late, great George Orwell. In "1984," Orwell develops the concept of >"Newspeak," a careful reconstruction of language to either eliminate >undesirable concepts, or change their meanings. The idea being that if >you control and change the language, you control and change how people >think. The above paragraph quoted from Mr. Woodgate's post appears to >validate the idea of Newspeak. Please understand that I did not write the original Minute that I quoted. And I would call it 'Minute-speak' rather than 'Newspeak'. Apart from some new words, at least one of which, 'thoughtcrime', was not in any way original in concept, having been invented by some religious zealots around 500 years previously, Newspeak is mainly about imposing an ugly pseudo-mathematical logic on grammar, such as 'double-plus ungood' for 'extremely bad', and this aspect of it really has little literary merit, in my opinion. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Either we are causing global warming, in which case we may be able to stop it, or natural variation is causing it, and we probably can't stop it. You choose! John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
