IP: Babel Fish and Newspeak

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:18:55 -0800
> From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim () oreilly com>
> To: farber () central cis upenn edu
>
>
> Dave,
>
> I thought your readers might get a kick out of this.  It starts out with
> an author wondering if he'd be able to read a translation of his book,
> wondering if babelfish would help, and ends up musing on Orwellian
> newspeak, and the question of whether or not our tools might demand that
> we change the way we speak and think, rather than the other way around.
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/news/babel_0300.html
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