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• heteromeles commented on The language of alienation
  Good to know. I always thought that fracking (for hydraulic fracturing) was a particularly good term, given what it does to groundwater....
• Manmountain commented on The language of alienation
  ggl lflg dta sawt wrt bhhdng...
• moz commented on The language of alienation
  today: "denialists threatened by science curriculum" would be misunderstood, probably as evolution rather than AGW. Any similar comment would range from misunderstood to incomprehensible. "Chinese panel dumping could boost Australian renewables and save the grid" would make sense only to a few ecogeeks in 2003. in 2023: "457 bodies blamed for WCL collapse", when the bodies of Chinese construction workers here on the section 457 visa programnme that were secretly dumped into the construction cause part of the fast train track up the west coast of australia to fail. "boost sat fail fries Nanutarra nautilists" (yes, another headline). Solar power...
• sabik.eta commented on The language of alienation
  (Hope this doesn't crash the server again...) Anonymous. Most sentences involving Anonymous would be pretty incomprehensible in 2003 (unless they involve acts of petty vandalism only)....
• mikko.v.parviainen commented on The language of alienation
  I can't think of a phrase right now, but I think CDOs and other financial sca^H^H^Hinstruments would be more understandable now than in 2003. This all related to the somewhat strange financial markets and their behaviour some years ago. There was more talk about the instruments in 2007-2008 than five years before that, but I'm not sure when the instrument invention really started....