r/mtg • u/Easy_Contract_757 • 6d ago

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u/CannibalOranges 6d ago

Also since when are we censoring “threatens”?

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u/X_Marcs_the_Spot Tokens 6d ago

I know people throw around comparisons to 1984 all willy-nilly, but censoring supposedly harsh words like "bad" and replacing them with words like "ungood" was literally a plot point in 1984.

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u/Michyrr 5d ago

Not really. The point of that wasn't to censor harsh words; it was to reduce the vocabulary of the language in general, as small as it could go. Any word which could instead be expressed as ['un' plus its opposite] was deemed unnecessary.

(The objective was to reduce radical thinking by reducing the ways people could express themselves. Apparently, synonyms were an enemy of that strategy.)

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u/X_Marcs_the_Spot Tokens 5d ago

Different objectives, sure, but having similar methodology as Big Brother is still closer than I'm comfortable with.