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Subject: Re: Re: Poor English (here too)
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 23:49:24 EST
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Nf-From: haddock!jimc    Mar 19 16:12:00 1985

I thought "book" was short for "boogie".  

Anyway, I point all of you to the appendix Orwell wrote in 
*1984*, entitled "Principles of Newspeak." As Orwell saw it, one 
of the overriding concerns of any totalitarian government is to 
minimize the ability to present ideas, which in his world was 
done by simply removing words which could possibly have a 
connotation considered dangerous to the state.  One way to do 
this was forcing citizens to use nouns as verbs, and vice versa.  
It is interesting how there seems to be a trend in our language 
to do this, even if it is not directed toward any conscious aim 
like totalitarianism.  


					Jim Campbell