Is this not getting far afield from the original topic?
--- On Fri, 11/28/08, John Woodgate <[email protected]> wrote: > From: John Woodgate <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: EMI Receivers > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 2:13 PM > 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]> - 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]>
