doctor disease

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sun May 13 23:40:43 PDT 2001


Rob quotes Orwell:


>"If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of
>orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you
>make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.
>Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political
>parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound
>truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to
>pure wind."

On the contrary, the worst follies of orthodoxy speak through simplified English. E.g., the market = good, the government = bad.

Yoshie



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