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Hello,
I was thinking the other day that one of the best weapons we have is the
power, flexibility and uncontrollability of our native tongue.
Here's my idea:
Start using large corporation's names and brands in ordinary
conversation to signify derrogatory and negative things, and keep doing
it. Gradually, your friends may cotton on and in this way, we can
spread new words into the language.
They may argue trade-mark! But the truth is that they have very little
real power in this area, you can't prosecute someone for using a word in
normal, natural language. Also, eventually the dictionaries will have
to enter the words as normal nouns or verbs and not proper nouns.
For example, in this way words like 'aspirin', 'polythene', 'perspex'
and 'hoover' are now normal nouns in English, even though they were
originally trademarks.
So microsoft (verb meaning, using disreputible tatics to undermine the
competition, adverb: he won the argument most microsoftly) the dirty
monsantos (noun meaning an untrustworthy and corrupt person) and
eventually they'll be well zeneca'd! (verb, to be zenecared is to be
mercilously rogered!)
Eventually we shall generalmotors/billclinton the lot of them!
Get the idea?
Mike.
Martin Cosgrave wrote:
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> From: "Chris Cappuccio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 10:23 PM
> Subject: GeeK: Journal of the Uninvited
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> > http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/350.html
> >
> > This is a detailed account of events in Seattle at the November
> > 30th WTO protest. Parts of it are more of a general editorial on
> > globalization. Some of the facts presented are astounding
> >
> > "Already, the world's top 200 companies have twice the assets of 80
> > percent of the world's people."
> >
> > "The police were anonymous. No facial expressions, no face. You
> > could not see their eyes. They were masked Hollywood caricatures
> > burdened with sixty to seventy pounds of weaponry. These were not
> > the men and women of the Sixth Precinct. They were the Gang Squads
> > and the SWAT teams of the Tactical Operations Divisions, closer in
> > their training to soldiers from the School of the Americas than to
> > local cops on the beat. Behind and around them were special forces
> > from the FBI, the Secret Service, even the CIA.
> >
> > The police were almost motionless. They were equipped with US
> > military-standard M40A1 double-canister gas masks; uncalibrated,
> > semi-automatic, high-velocity Autocockers loaded with solid plastic
> > shot; Monadnock disposable plastic cuffs; Nomex slash-resistant
> > gloves; Commando boots; Centurion tactical leg guards; combat
> > harnesses; DK5-H pivot-and-lock riot face shields; black Monadnock
> > P24 polycarbonate riot batons with Trumbull stop side handles; No.
> > 2 continuous discharge CS (ortho-chlorobenzylidene-malononitrile)
> > chemical grenades; M651 CN (chloroacetophenone) pyrotechnic
> > grenades; T16 Flameless OC Expulsion Grenades; DTCA rubber bullet
> > grenades ("Stingers"); M-203 (40 mm) grenade launchers, First
> > Defense MK-46 oleoresin capsicum (OC) aerosol tanks with hose and
> > wands; .60-caliber rubber ball impact munitions; lightweight
> > tactical Kevlar composite ballistic helmets; combat butt packs;
> > .30-cal. 30-round magazine pouches; and Kevlar body armor. None of
> > the police had visible badges or forms of identification.
> >
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