Re: count2.asm

Beth wrote (and wrote, and wrote, and wrote, ...):
> I can tell you this _NOW_...but let's see
> how long it actually takes these so-called "experts" to come to the
> "revelation" that many elsewhere already know perfectly well as _fact_
> (and have done, sorry to say, for centuries, if not millenia)...

I'm not stupid enough to take that bet (one of the teachers at the
school here claimed learning Latin was a good, noting an increase in
his vocabulary).

> BUT the basic underlying concept is in no way fiction (Orwell
> "exaggerated for emphasis" to make the underlying point about thought
> control via linguistical manipulation clear)...it's a well established
> concept that language very much is bound - part and parcel - with how
> people think and what people think...what people are even _able_ to
> think...

I haven't read that book, but I will not hesitate in agreeing with
that, as I've made that same connection.

> Beth :)

NoDot,
....

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