There is a wealth of literature on Orwellian "newspeak". For well-reasoned opinion look up books by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.
Here, for example, Chomsky discusses two ideas of "democracy" (similar to the notion of "American people"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doDKkiQejC0. Twain's, Orwell's and Huxley's classic books are also educational (look up Orwell's essay on English language). Oleh On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Michael Micheletti < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Watching a YouTube presidential campaign clip the other day, the candidate > kept saying "The American People this" and "The American People that". > > The way it sort of trilled off the tongue reminded me much of developers > saying "The Users this" and "The Users that". > > We've all heard of or employed various ways to work the design past "The > Users" when creating software: user research, personas, inviting a couple > representative users onto the design team, etc. We know from past > experience > that what the developers think "The Users" want may be instead what the > developers want, or know how to do perhaps. > > Does "The American People" / Politicians sound like "The Users" / > Developers > to you? Are there other similar Generalization / Occupation pairs you can > think of? Examples from other cultures and languages? Clarification from > anyone more politically savvy than I am (that's just about everybody)? > > If this doesn't make any sense, my apologies, it may be the antibiotics & > cough medicine talking... > > Michael Micheletti > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
