Re: CHAT: national identity
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 18, 1999, 3:03 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
> You mean lying to oneself to the point of believing it, even unto
> brainwashing oneself? Hey, nice concept!
Why, that's just good ol' fashioned Doublethink.
> I guess that could be managed in Tech by using the middle (reflexive) voice
> of the intensive inflectional form with consummatory marker (an infix) of
> the verb meaning "to deceive", most likely.
My suspicion with regards to W. is that it would use the reflexive
voice, causative form of "to believe", that is, "make one self
believe". Perhaps with the prefix gu-, which means something like
"wrongly, falsely", thus "make oneself believe falsely", or klugukwili'
(an ugly word, if I do say so myself)
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