tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11376836.post113103448007378456..comments2023-05-25T07:04:45.749-04:00Comments on Watch Me sleep: Stop teaching the controversyEd Keerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15427371337512386674noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11376836.post-1131565542064975272005-11-09T14:45:00.000-05:002005-11-09T14:45:00.000-05:00This is very interesting stuff. I vaguely thought ...This is very interesting stuff. I vaguely thought the Newspeak idea in 1984 was a little exagerrated, but never really reacted against it. Now that I think about it, there was no word for "liberalism" until someone coined it to describe a collection of ideas that were already out there, so it doesn't really make sense that eliminating the word "free" from the language would kill the idea of freedom.<BR/><BR/>But I don't agree that replacing the word "problem" with "opportunity" doesn't have any effect. Sure, if you fully eliminate "problem" from the language, "opportunity" will lose its positive connotation. But if you just say "opportunity" instead of "problem" now and then, you may benefit from the positive connotations of "opportunity" as opposed to "problem." <BR/><BR/>Not that I would ever do such a thing.boredoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06374659087209661689noreply@blogger.com