Just learn INGSOC's Newspeak. I know, it doesn't exist yet, but big tech and lefties are making it happen by changing the meaning of commonly used words in the dictionary.
As personal communication, Newspeak is to be spoken in staccato rhythm, using words that are short and easy to pronounce. The Party intends to make speech physically automatic and intellectually unconscious in order to diminish the possibility of critical thought occurring to the speaker. English words of comparative and superlative meanings and irregular spellings were simplified into regular spellings; thus, better becomes gooder and best becomes goodest. The prefixes plus- and doubleplus- are used for emphasis (for example, pluscold meaning "very cold" and doublepluscold meaning "extremely cold"). Adjectives are formed by adding the suffix –ful to a root-word, e.g. goodthinkful means "Orthodox in thought."; while adverbs are formed by adding the suffix –wise, e.g. goodthinkwise means "In an orthodox manner".
Nobody needs another language .... we already have too many which causes no end of communication problems.
Esperanto, the world's least spoken language. Even Klingon is spoken by more people than Esperanto hahahaha.
"Finally, a mention of tlhIngan (Klingon) for you - by far the Most widely spoken fictional language. Participants at Star Trek conventions frequently converse in the language and in addition to a Klingon Dictionary there are Klingon translations of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing,Gilgamesh, and the Tao Te Ching. Qapla'!" -- Guiness Book of World Records
Yes, this is stated in the Vedic literature of the Srimad Bhagavatam, where it states in detail that our universe, which is one of millions, is created and destroyed with each breath of Vishnu;
"In Hinduism, a Kalpa is indicative for creation and dissolution of a universe. However, there are a few cycles of time mentioned in Hinduism, which consists of several iterations of such "Kalpa"-s. First one of them is referred as "One Month of Brahma", which consists of 30 Kalpas and successive dissolution phases. Each Kalpa in the series are distinctly identified by different names. Current "Kalpa" is referred to as "Sweta-Baraha", next one will be "Neel-Lohita". Combining 12 such "Months of Brahma", one year of Brahma is formed. 100 such years of "Brahma" is called as a "Maha-Kalpa". Length of a Maha-Kalpa is almost 310 Trillions years. 8000 such "Maha-Kalpa"-s form one "Yuga of Brahma", whose length is 2.4 Quintillion years. There are other greater cycles whose lengths are 22.3 Sextillion years, 670 Sextillion years and 201 Septillion years respectively."
I never realized that there is soooooo much kiddie porn on Facebook that it warrants creation of "back-door access" :-) no pun intended, for governments to spy on people's private communication so as to SAVE THE CHILDREN.
I pity the fools who rely on these maps for real-time directions. Whatever happened to reading a map and making mental notes? What ever happened to people being able to follow street signs and using your common sense?
How did we become so utterly dependent on this technology that only a generation ago was unnecessary?
Driver-less cars with AI powered navigation coming to your house in the not too distant future. It will plot the most efficient course to get your meat-sack self from your house to the corner store to buy bread & milk....and you don't need to think at all about what your legs are doing. That is if you even still walk. Maybe you are so lazy you will order by the noise-polluting drone delivery service.
People marvel at tech, and don't misunderstand my rant, Google Maps, Openstreet Maps etc are extremely useful in researching places, but, we should not become reliant to the point where we cannot function without them. Otherwise we are becoming mindless zombies in this ever tech-infested world of ours where we are loosing basic skills such as navigating from point A to point B.
> went on to show that from their point of view they weren't all that bad.
Exactly, just like the Nazi soldiers weren't all that bad either but they were just following the orders of their superiors and believed in a united Germany. But really they were ok.
mmmmm...some tropes are rooted firmly in reality, maybe a little exaggerated sometimes, but there is truth to them nonetheless, just like there is some truth stereotypes.
I think there is nothing inherently wrong with using tropes. Freedom to choose is what is important. If the author wants to use tropes, they should be able to.
Sure, if they want, if they choose to. And that's the point for me at least; freedom of choice.
Writers should be able to write how they want, employing whatever literary devices they want, about whatever topic they want. There should be no restriction imposed.
On another note; writers can't ignore reality, if they are writing about reality that is. Homeless people exist. They are smelly and unclean and in many cases can be violent. Ask anyone living in San Francisco, Los Angeles etc. Sure, not every homeless person is white, but the majority are. Trying to pressure writers into adding forced "diversity" due to wokeness is ridiculous. Reality is not woke, it is what it is.
If they want to use tropes, no problem. If they want to find different ways of representing real life situations without the use of tropes, no problem. Whatever. Choice.
What i disagree with is the imposition of language that the OP (Chris Winkle) is trying to impose; that tropes are somehow bad and to be avoided or "cleaned up" because they are somehow demeaning or offensive.
My friend found out the hard way; challenging the ideas of her manager. She now has her head on the chopping block and is under constant passive-aggressive attack by said manager. Her co-worker "friends"....nowhere to be found, no support, no anything except a deafening silence.
If writers actually follow these guidelines, god help us. Imagination will be curtailed and suffer, and we the readers will suffer as a result.
This misguided attempt to "wokify" storytelling is reminiscent of the attempts by INGSOC in 1984 to eliminate the expression of the shades of meaning inherent in ambiguity and nuance from Oldspeak (Standard English). In order to reduce the language's function of communication, Newspeak uses concepts of simple construction: pleasure vs. pain, happiness vs. sadness. Goodthink vs. crimethink linguistically reinforces the State's totalitarian dominance of the people of Oceania.
I hope nobody follows those guidelines. I pitty the fool who does.
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