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.