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Haitian sounds like French (Score:2)
"Pal franse pa di lespri pou sa"... Hé mais je comprends ce que ça veut dire ! C'est du créole ?
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Orwell (Score:1)
One column is about how Italian war propaganda did not bother to even be self-consistent, as the British equivalent was. He decides the British effort was a waste, and in a throwaway line wonders if even the enemy could be switched without anyone noticing.
One by one, you can watch many of the ideas of 1984 crystallizing. It's fascinating.
But there's a lot more to this book. I kept seeing parallels and contrasts with our own era, where the arch-cap
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Mmmmmm....no. (Score:1)
Piffle. Real depth is never penetrated by the fanboy gaze, so why muddy the surface?
In any case, George himself had rather different ideas [netcharles.com] about clarity of expression, so it would've been a tough sell.
-ubu
Re:Mmmmmm....no. (Score:2)
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