Showing posts with label Lake District. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake District. Show all posts

Friday, 14 December 2012

Use No 40 NEW.SPEAK

new•speak Pronunciation: (nOO'spēk) Coined in George Orwell's classic book '1984', new.speak is an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, esp. in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective The Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely Partnership has just won two awards for its outstanding contribution to New.Speak The title of the Partnership (Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely) is in itself blatant New.Speak Other key examples of MRWS new.speak are: *Democratic Process *Volunteer *Willing Community all saying one thing in the guise of its opposite. http://dictionary.infoplease.com/newspeak http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app http://www.medialens.org/bookshop/newspeak.php and the resulting awards... http://www.nwemail.co.uk/two-awards-for-west-cumbria-nuclear-waste-consultation-1.1021517?referrerPath=news1

Thursday, 1 December 2011

World's Biggest Hole


USE NO 34

THE WORLD'S BIGGEST HOLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IgGoMUS6t0

World's biggest hole :
The world’s biggest hole Mirny Diamond Mine is located in Russia. The giant hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia. It is 525 meters deep and 1.25 km in the diameter.

Chris Huhne plans to trump that with a hole 1000 meters deep, 26 km square and filled with high level nuclear wastes.