On 20200722 15:17:03, Ralph Seichter wrote:
* Charles Sprickman:
Rather than tolerate the tiniest of changes you throw a tantrum.
"Tiny changes", as in small stones getting kicked down a slope, causing
an avalanche. Attempts to restrict vocabulary should be a very familiar
and worrying concept to anyone who read Orwell. Speaking out against
this is very necessary. Silently tolerating stupid changes stems from
either weakness, lack of understanding or disinterest.
-Ralph
It is a technique that predated Orwell's story and even predated my birth. At
the very least the Germans tried to frame their arguments by restricting
vocabulary. Stalin certainly did. Mao certainly did.
I am glad somebody else feels this is as important an issue as I do.
{^_^}
