LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM (Newspeak)

Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh at sharif.edu
Sun Jun 1 22:50:33 CEST 2003


On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Mark Crispin wrote:

> Although of great historical interest, and quite comic in its own way, I
> don't believe that Marxist jargon deserves its own language tag.  But it
> has a stronger claim than Newspeak.

So? Many other things may be more deserving, but nobody has asked for
them. Those Marxist words are all in a word list of English.

This guy here wants Newspeak. And well, that may be used in spellchecking
also, so 'doublethink' passes whatever spellchecker someone in the future 
may have.

roozbeh



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