From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Next time I'll just say "explain yourself"
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:50:37 +0100

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From: "Josh Geller" 
>
> > Only in Orwell's 1984 (and arguably in some SF books written since then)
> > does this concept of total linguistic replacement arise.
>
> Really?
>
> When was the last time you used the word 'nigger' in conversation?
>

Again, not relevant, though pithy.  Some words can be cut out, but it's not
the same thing as the massive restructuring Orwell was diagramming


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