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Re: It's not a surprise, and thanks for the compliment.

Absolutely. Orwell understood that he who writes the ideological dictionaries gets to control the political language. That is what you are trying to do, by claiming any deviation from your definition has to be mistaken. That is exactly how you cloak your reframing TB, by making any deviation from your rightthink ungrammatical, hence, false, by definition.

Orwell was a great socialist thinker. And he was also a democrat, and a master of the English language, the most flexible instrument of communication in the world.

Winston Smith's job was to make sure the dictionaries, history and the news were expressed in the same fixed lexicon. Just like you are lecturing Frank to do. Orwell was perfectly familiar with how tyranny manipulates the language in an attempt to control thought, not by keeping it fluid and flexible, adaptable and free, but by making it rigid and inevitable, and of course, politically correct, so that it was simply impossible to think except in Newspeak. Orwell understood how ideologues and zealots do it on Left AND Right.

Of course, in your dictionary, there are no dictatorships of the Right. You have defined tyranny as only possible on the Left. You have even defined the Nazis right out of existence, they are just another variation of Bolshevik to you.

I don't need to look up anything in your dictionary, TB. I can already guess what its going to say.

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