From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com   
      
    '...wish more people would read George Orwell, and specially his essay   
   'Politics and the English Language', for an example of the unbeatable   
   alliance of honesty and simplicity, and a good set of rules on how best to   
   write and speak. But the things he warned against 60 years ago are now   
   happening as if he'd never preached against them. Orwell was also   
   brilliantly prophetic in his invention of 'Newspeak', the narrow, limited   
   language of 1984 in which many important things can no longer be said ( and   
   so also no longer thought).   
   Most of the changes for the worse in English have this effect. They destroy   
   subtlety, narrow meanings and gradually reduce a musical and intricate   
   tongue to a series of utilitarian grunts, splutters and yells. It's our duty   
   , to those who come after us, to resist this, not complacently to insist   
   that it is inevitable. The beauty and subtlety of language are both measures   
   of a civilisation. If we willingly let them disappear, then we should not be   
   surprised at the new dark age that follows.'   
      
      
      
    http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2006/11/language_truth_.html   
      
      
      
   Even Righties luv our boy.   
      
   Oh, I had a smile at the last paragraph of _The Limits of Pessimism_ on the   
   loo the other day.   
      
      
      
      
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)