From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 20:54:31 MST
Charlie Stross wrote:
> but hopefully it'll be a comprehensive, provocative, and interesting read.
I tyrannically demand that all hip humans immediately
stop referring to a book as a read. I have a vision
that before the singularity, we will be conversational
with our wearable computers. If we keep verbing, that
is making nouns out of verbs and vva, we make machine
speech interpretation practically impossible. Verbing
weirds language.
Do review Orwell's newspeak in the wonderful novel 1984.
He proposed a universal subset of English in which words
are unambiguously defined and redundant words eliminated.
All ungood words would equal unhere. Language would
equal double plus easy.
spike
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