I just paralleled foucault and o'brien in a termpaper - orwell, chomsky,
jeremy bentham (the guy who thought up the panopticon foucault writes about
in "discipline and punish"), a guy named victor klemperer in our "hometown"
of dresden all wrote about the abuse of language for political ends
(variants on totalitarianism) - while I can see that happening in the here
and now (where does the "homeland" in "homeland security" come from? Do
americans say "homeland" in any other contexts or is it a direct translation
of the german "heimat"?), I'm wondering what other "major cultural change"
we might now be undergoing which might explain the evidence given in the
examples/discussion...
geoff carver - SUNY buffalo
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Good analogy, you know major cultural change is highly related to the
evolution of language.