FC: A new Microsoft-English dictionary by Richard Forno (satire)

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 22:39:34 PDT

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    Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:06:56 -0400
    Subject: Microsoft-English Dictionary (Article)
    From: Richard Forno <rfornoat_private>
    To: <declanat_private>
    CC: <politechat_private>
    
    Declan - hope you had a good 4th of July weekend holiday, rain
    notwithstanding here in DC. At least from Arlington the view of the national
    fireworks was really good!!
    
    This is my latest commentary/missive that - if you think appropriate - is
    humbly submitted for POLITECH. If you don't think it appropriate, feel free
    to delete it....I couldn't sleep the other night and to fight insomnia, you
    know I usually start writing.   :)
    
    ttyl
    
    rick
    infowarrior.org / incidentresponse.com
    
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    For his novel "1984" George Orwell developed "Newspeak", a modified English
    language using ambiguous or deceptive words, metaphors, or euphemisms to
    influence public opinion on various matters - a common business practice
    refined to an exacting science by news media, marketing companies, and
    corporate PR departments.
    
    Nowhere is Newspeak more perfected than in the halls of the Microsoft Campus
    in Redmond, Washington - a place where legions of well-paid spin-meisters
    attempt to morph the reality of their company's business, legal, and product
    information into innocuous -sounding, politically-correct, calm-inducing
    statements when released to the public. Naturally, this has a confusing
    effect on the general public who is unfamiliar with this particular form of
    language.
    
    As a public service, this article contains a helpful list of terms used by
    the company and what, in reality - not Newspeak - such terms actually mean.
    It's my hope that such insight - culled from personal experience and the
    input of other technology professionals - will cut through the Newspeak fog
    and assist readers in determining for themselves what Microsoft is really
    saying in its public statements.
    
    The Microsoft-English Dictionary is organized into four sections: (1) Legal,
    Marketing, and Internet Community Terms; (2) Security-Oriented Terms; (3)
    Product-Related Terms; and (4) Miscellaneous Terms.
    
    Article Found at:  http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2001-04.html
    
    
    
    
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