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Old 05-28-2003, 12:26 PM   #6 (permalink)
HiThereDear
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I don't like government sticking its nose into the way history is written for schoolchildren. This should be left to actual historians.
I completely agree.




First thing that popped into my mind was Newspeak.
Language has huge power over people. Look at the outlawing of "Irish" and Welsh - the English used language as a vector of control.
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