On Sun Jun 21 08:15:00 2020 deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eike Lantzsch wrote: > >> If we change the language it might change the mind little by little - >> or not at all. Depends on which influences on a person or group of >> persons is stronger. ("For mere oppression may make a wise one act >> crazy, ..."[2]) > > You have obviously no idea of how language works - you are trying > dictatorship. > Language serves communication needs. Most of the time. However, it can also be used for manipulation. > Language follows our society. Unless it's used to warp our society. It's time a lot of us gave Orwell's _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ another read. Pay particular attention to the appendix on Newspeak, wherein he describes how language can be used to alter - and limit - thought itself. > So please - go change the real problems in society that is really > not the language. Agreed. And resist the revisionist lexicographers. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship. \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | Apple is a cult. X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Linux is anarchy. / \ if you read it the right way. | Pick your poison.