We need a new vocabulary for our new era. In 1984 George Orwell gave us the word and concept of 'Newspeak', the language in which one could only speak in praise of Big Brother and in which there was no vocabulary in which to form thoughts of resistance or rebellion. Various dialects of 'Newspeak' are spreading continually through the media and the population in general.
My contribution is a word for the mental process corresponding to Newspeak. It is crapthink. I have the copyright to it but it is available as a free download.
I call on my thousands of readers to contribute their own new words for the new millennium to this blog.
The phrase "your can of soup" meaning the price you will sell out to big business.
ReplyDeleteHow about "That old Kellogg thing."
And the word "Tenningenson" means everything, but not too many people know it.
Then there is the phrase "He's just telling us the population of the Northwest territories." which means the person talking is just making up facts as he or she (usually he) goes along,
And the prase "the house is on the fritz" which means someone is living in the attic.
Heavens to betsy, I'm waxing nostalgic.