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Newspeak. That was a bad omen.
Very cool Kendall, thanks for linking this.
Was stunned that cyberculture was coined in 1963!
Nowheresville
For me, queue-jumping. Disconcertingly apt.
1944 – gobbledygook – a word I find myself using with great frequency in the Anglican theological and political wars.