Re: how to say "god does not exist" in arabic?

From: Wolfgang Schwanke (see_at_sig.nature)
Date: 08/18/04


Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 04:27:17 +0200


"Holden" <nothx@ihatespam.com> wrote in
news:2of7elFa630iU1@uni-berlin.de:

> "Orwellian Newspeak" is a contemporary term that has it's roots in the
> excerpt of 1984 he posted.

But it's only a term. The concept doesn't exist, except as failed attempts.
Even the most hardline PC speech never succeeded in preventing anyone from
thinking the thoughts it tried to weed out. And it only ever existed in
small pockets of some language communities, but never took over a language
as a whole.

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