*findthumb ....

A different thumbnail image for this video could not be found for findthumb request by geo321.

i heart geo321's posts..
*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 11:52pm PDT - promote requested by enoch.

*findthumb

The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - findthumb requested by lucky760.

Moving this video to geo321's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by original submitter geo321.

come oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon.
*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, August 15th, 2010 4:10pm PDT - promote requested by enoch.

I am consumed with bitter envy over the *quality of geos posts....

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by bleedmegood.

Awesome Post! Steampunk style poetry... reminds me of Orwellian "Newspeak".

Also, I may be too inception obsessed... but is that joseph gordon-levitt?

Fantastic

>> ^raverman:

Awesome Post! Steampunk style poetry... reminds me of Orwellian "Newspeak".


It's more like the opposite of Newspeak. Newspeak was a parred down vocabulary, simplifying sentence structure, omitting alternative words, and emphasizing simplistic concatenations such as "doublethink", as well as shortened concatenations such as "minitrue" (Ministry of Truth). It's also important to note that in order to truly speak and understand Newspeak you must have a specific understanding of each word, for no single word is intended to be used in any other way than it's original meaning, eliminating poetics.

This video, on the other hand, is a string of modern expressions filled with stiff latinate words for comedic (and poetic) effect. There are too many thoughts associated with each word to be even remotely considered for ingsoc's Oceania.

raverman: That is, indeed, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. This is a production of his hitRECord project.

Reminds me of... not is ... it shares a general concept but not the motivation to create obediance.

Here, the language takes away the context of human idioms, emotion, and cultural norms embedded in the words replacing it with dry descriptions and simplified adverbs. e.g. Lips, eyes, smile, waiter, food, drink, menus, mirrors, tears, man, woman. Smiling or crying means something. Lip uplifting or dripping salt liquid is an empty description.

Living with such a language would limit the ability to think and behave emotively as a human... there just wouldn't be a word for it any more.>> ^poolcleaner:

>> ^raverman:
Awesome Post! Steampunk style poetry... reminds me of Orwellian "Newspeak".

It's more like the opposite of Newspeak. Newspeak was a parred down vocabulary, simplifying sentence structure, omitting alternative words, and emphasizing simplistic concatenations such as "doublethink", as well as shortened concatenations such as "minitrue" (Ministry of Truth). It's also important to note that in order to truly speak and understand Newspeak you must have a specific understanding of each word, for no single word is intended to be used in any other way than it's original meaning, eliminating poetics.
This video, on the other hand, is a string of modern expressions filled with stiff latinate words for comedic (and poetic) effect. There are too many thoughts associated with each word to be even remotely considered for ingsoc's Oceania.