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Earendilyon · 10-30-2003, 01:49 PM

I tend to agree with Gilbo: language can be used as a means of subjugation. When most people cannot read in a society, the ones who can, can enforce their will on the others, because they seem to know best and such. 'It says so on that paper!'

10-30-2003, 01:49 PM	#10
Earendilyon Wight Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 166	I tend to agree with Gilbo: language can be used as a means of subjugation. When most people cannot read in a society, the ones who can, can enforce their will on the others, because they seem to know best and such. 'It says so on that paper!' __________________ "For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me." Dominus Anulorum TolkienGateway - large Tolkien encyclopedia.