Maybe someone can help me out here...

I have, for a very long time now, been trying to figure out what SoSecurity is. I mean I do, of course, know what SoCIAL Security is, but what is this program called SoSecurity so many people are gabbing about all over TV?

I'm about to start running down the street screaming at the tops of my lungs "It's SoCIAL Security!!!!"! Why are we too lazy to even complete the word social? I mean...it's only one syllable! I mean...most of those same people have no problem saying things like "the problem with that is is blah, blah, blah." Save the second "is" and add the second syllable on to the word social!!!

OK - Rant over! Sorry, just had to get it off my chest.


:rant:

Lazy speech. It has infected most of the country. Even the news readers don't bother.

I have also noticed a lot of times they speak in real life and say "LOL" which indicates to me they are addicted to the friggin' internet chat rooms or forums.

affect "insensitive" groups like children and the elderly.

:rofl:

Why can't kids and them there oldsters learn to be more sensative to the poor air quality, anyways? :shrug: What's it ever done to them?

:shrug: whysat s'bad?

By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Orwell, 1984

:grr: