Date: Tuesday, 11 December 1984 16:01 mst From: James J. Lippard Subject: Miscellaneous Digest V3 #40 Reply-To: {mbx >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc} To: {list >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc} Miscellaneous Digest Volume 3 : Issue 40 Today's topics: More on dogs (2 msgs) Doublespeak Awards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thursday, 6 December 1984 17:10 mst From: Ron Barstad Subject: Re: Miscellaneous Digest V3 #39 LA Times reports: Dog Bites Dust. ------------------------------ Date: Friday, 7 December 1984 15:41 mst From: James J. Lippard Forum-Transaction: [34794] in the >udd>DSOP>DWeller>meetings>Us meeting Transaction-Entered-By: Pattin.Multics Transaction-Entered-Date: 7 December 1984 14:34 mst Today's "People" column in Mercury has a little squib about a puppy that was given to the Reagans. After reporting that there is some question about whether the puppy will live in Washington or Santa Barbara, the writer suggests that if they keep it in Santa Barbara, they pick up the LA Times at the newsstand rather than having it delivered. ------------------------------ Date: 8 Dec 84 19:33:54 PST From: Pavel.pa@XEROX.ARPA Subject: Doublespeak awards for 1984 To: yduJ at SRI-KL ReSent-date: Sun 9 Dec 84 15:54:39-PST ReSent-from: Judy Anderson ReSent-to: info-cobol at MIT-CCC Date: 7 Dec 84 01:44:46 PST (Friday) From: Trow.pa Subject: Doublespeak awards for 1984 To: Whimsy^ ---------------------------------------------------------------- National Council of Teachers of English Doublespeak awards for 1984. The State Department won 1st prize for replacing the word killing with "unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life." Second prize: George Bush for equating liberals with Nicaraguan leftists. Third: Casper Weinberger for the remark he made after the American soldiers were removed from Lebanon to ships offshore: "Nothing has changed. We are not leaving Lebanon. The Marines are being deployed two or three miles to the west." Runners up: The National Transportation Safety Board for calling airplane crashes "controlled flights into terrain" in its investigation records. The Pentagon for calling peace, "permanent pre-hostility," calling combat, "violence processing," and for referring to civilian casualties in nuclear war as "collateral damage." The Pentagon was also cited for calling the October 1983 invasion of Grenada a "predawn vertical insertion." ------------------------------ End of Miscellaneous Digest ***************************