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   Re: Politics and the English Language (1   
   10 Aug 12 16:06:38   
   
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   XPost: alt.society.liberalism, soc.culture.usa, alt.anarchism   
   XPost: soc.culture.china   
   From: acc725@etaoin.com   
      
   It's not often one gets trolled from 1940.   
      
   Hiroshi Oshima , Japanese Ambassador to the Third Reich AD 1940 Berlin wrote:   
   > Chinese  dare   not  express  themselves  ,  sexually  ,  or   
   > mentally .   
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   > Confucius  killed   the  Chinese  mind .,   
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   > Communist  killed  the  Chinese  mind   
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   > Only  English  and  western  nations  dare  to  express   
   > themselves  ,  in  WHITE  SUPERIORITY  ,  and   
   > in  the  WHITE    SOCIAL   Community   .   
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   > Manchu  killed  the  Chinese  liberty  in  FREEDOM  of  EXPRESSION ,   
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   > CONFUCIUS   did  not  want  the  CHINESE  people  to  have  the   
   > ability    to  think  for  themselves .   
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   > COMMUNIST   PARTY   of  CHINA ,  CPC   ,   does  not  want  CHINESE   
   > to  have  their thinking  brains ,otherwise   
   > Chinese   people  will  not   follow   CPC 's  orders  .   
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   >   Aug 9, 1:21 am, Dänk 42Ø  wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:28:54 -0700, Dai Li  , the  Himmler   of  China and   
   >>   the  Head  of  the   Bureau  of  investigation  and  Statistics  (   
   >> Chinese  CIA  )  of  the  KMT wrote:   
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   >>> in the  end  of  the  20th  century  ,   
   >>> and in the  21st  century ,   
   >>> English  become s an important   POLITICAL  language  because  of the   
   >>> American YANKEES  ,   
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   >>> not  because  of the  ENGLISH  nation .   
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   >> One reason English is so important is because unlike Mandarin, it allows   
   >> for free thought.  The power of English is its ability to borrow words   
   >> for foreign ideas (e.g. "karma"), and to invent new words for new ideas   
   >> (e.g. "texting"), giving it the largest vocabulary of all world   
   >> languages.  This also makes English difficult to learn, especially   
   >> spelling, which has few rules given the differing origins of our words.   
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   >> In Mandarin's defense, the written form of the language is so formalized   
   >> that it is easily translatable by machine (Babelfish, Google Translate).   
   >> But this also means that nuanced ideas can't be expressed well, which   
   >> limits the range of thought.  And words that can be read by machine can   
   >> also be censored by machine, as we see by the ease the Chinese government   
   >> monitors and censors Internet and text message communications.   
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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