Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Neologisms
There's a lot of excitement at the moment about some new "words" or at least new meanings for words in the dictionary. Now whilst this might be of use to scrabble players and the denizens of dictionary corner, I'm afraid that us old school (or should that be skool) asylum attendants see things a little bit differently. I was taught, and more to the point have observed at first hand, that the use of new words or using known words but with completely different and often extremely bizarre meanings was a classic symptom of schizophrenia and up there with some of Schneider's finest - like ideas of reference, third person auditory hallucinations and delusional ideas. Therefore most of the idiots that pick up on this newspeak are mentally ill and will need active treatment. Especially those who are upwardly mobile and go to dinner parties in the better parts of Islington...or are pseudo-intellectual radical left-wing political activists trying to appeal to the youth of this desolate nation.
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