Prepare for Googlespeak citizen!


From the If Google Owned Everything challenge. See all 263 entries (closed)

( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 11:46, archived)

Fantastic!
It's sort of like the recent court case in the States backwards, sort of thing...errr...
( Jahled extraordinaire®, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 11:49, archived)

i was making fun of newspeak
and the way google has already affected language.

you 'google' someone to do an internet background search. etc.
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 11:52, archived)

Ah!
Well I clicked it anyway on account of it giving me teh fear :-)
( Jahled extraordinaire®, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 11:57, archived)

Doubleplusgood

(rogue sausage superfluous apostrophe pedagogue, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 11:51, archived)

thanks*
* oldspeak
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 11:56, archived)

Yay
"in 1984, big brother watches you!"
( Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Sat 25 Mar 2006, 11:53, archived)

arf!
Ik like the 'searching is finding' bit....logic straight from the book
( mediocre I am not strange, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 11:58, archived)

thanks
got the idea this morning and could not wait to do it.
I know others have done the whole 1984/v for vengence lack of privacy thing, but i wanted to focus more on the language changes/thoughtcrimes that would occur.
We already see laguage changes with the use of "to google" to mean "to search the internet" and "freedom and democracy" to mean "invasion and war".
I think Eric Blair, no relation, was quite prophetic.
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 12:06, archived)

yes
and it seems there is already a constant war going on somewhere, so people have too much distraction to think about what is really going on
( mediocre I am not strange, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 12:12, archived)

Don't forget "to hoover" meaning to use a vacuum cleaner.
It's mind control.
(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 12:22, archived)

aargh!
they are everywhere!!!!
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 12:26, archived)

..I like this...
...for obvious reasons...
(MrKane Resurrected According To Plan Nine, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 12:02, archived)