Re:Wikipedia has blocked editing ‘recession’ as people chang...
by MonkeyClub on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:02PM
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Back in the day I too thought that it's all about the fluidity of language, language as a living "thing" that evolves with time.
Then I read Orwell's Politics and the English Language, and 1984.
After that, the fluidity of language appears to me to be more and more in the hands of lexicographers as Newspeak developers who work hand-in-glove (with Them, whom else? :P ) to form the new way of thinking. No more romantic notions of lexicography as the track record of a civilization's linguistic endeavours.
Then I read Orwell's Politics and the English Language, and 1984.
After that, the fluidity of language appears to me to be more and more in the hands of lexicographers as Newspeak developers who work hand-in-glove (with Them, whom else? :P ) to form the new way of thinking. No more romantic notions of lexicography as the track record of a civilization's linguistic endeavours.