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iceweasel2/24/2010 10:30:24 pm PST

re: #246 freetoken

Well, this should help fight societal decay:

No Cussing movement up for state recognition

California… our air may be dirty, but our language is clean!

What’s up with the coyness over saying ‘curse’? Is that also a bad word? We have to say ‘cuss’?

Fuck that.
My serious point here is that euphemism in speech is a kind of doublethink in the Orwellian sense. NewSpeak consists of nothing but euphemisms; that is, in fact, its defining characteristic. Euphemisms should be shunned.