Implementing a new language of protest
karlof1 | 22.02.2003 08:36
So far the language of protest is mostly "No War!" cast in a pre-emptive sense. But there is already an ongoing war in Iraq (and in many other places) using both economic and aggressive combat. The result is a documented genocide being waged against the Iraqi people, an insidiously and methodically planned one. That genocide is a result that will escalate correspondingly with any additional escalation in combat against Iraq has already been concluded and made public knowledge, although the specific word GENOCIDE is rarely mentioned. This is precisely the word we must use; our main slogan must be "STOP THE GENOCIDE IN IRAQ!" because it confers the reality of the current and future situation. It also confronts elites with the enormity and legal repercussions of their past and current actions: All US imperial policy planners for the past 25 years should be in the dock with Saddam Hussein to answer for their crimes against humanity. (The famous handshake between Rumsfeld and Hussein should be captioned with "Partners in Crimes Against Humanity," made into posters and plastered all over the USA, which is only one of many possible productive ideas that integrate the new rhetorical strategy.)
So lets make an effort to really tell-it-like-it-is and drop the "NO WAR IN IRAQ!" and adopt "NO MORE GENOCIDE IN IRAQ!"
So lets make an effort to really tell-it-like-it-is and drop the "NO WAR IN IRAQ!" and adopt "NO MORE GENOCIDE IN IRAQ!"
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Implementing a new language ... UK ...
22.02.2003 12:13
"No War!" - "STOP THE GENOCIDE IN IRAQ!" - "NO WAR IN IRAQ!" - "NO MORE GENOCIDE IN IRAQ!" !
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Posted by Gerhard on 2/21/2003, 6:26 pm
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Euro English!
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of negotiations, her Majesty Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".
Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy.
Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k".
Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f".
This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always been a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgraful, and they would go.
By the forth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
by "z" and "w" by "v". During ze fifz year ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trobls or difikultis and evrivum vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
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Re: Euro Bill
Posted by Neil Rose on 2/21/2003, 8:01 pm, in reply to "Euro Bill"
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This is exactly what those evil foreigners across the channel are trying to do. Turn our beloved language, the language of Chaucer and Shakespeare and Clacton on Sea into the horrible brutal language of the continent.
Is this what I went over the top for???
Fog on the channel, continent cut off, that's what we say where I come from.
Yours Faithfully,
Sir Neil Rose (Major Retd)
Tonbridge.
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