Re: virus: Re: Virus: Sociological Change

Martin Traynor (m.traynor@ic.ac.uk)
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:11:43 +0000

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Me
> > Change to reflect the will of the people, I thought. Does NewSpeak do
> > that?

jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.sl
> I dunno, I guess it wouldn't have evolved if it hadn't caught on. It's probably
> more like a meme, than a conscious decision by people!

I understand it as a corruption of language designed to limit what
can be expressed within that language, specifically designed to limit
what the people can express, and thence (eventually) think. See
Orwells 1984. Although perhaps it has more recently come to mean
something different?

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A ripple in a shithole may also be a welcome sign of change.
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