News in 2115 with notes
Sept 7, 2015 7:11:47 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2015 7:11:47 GMT -5
The word "news" is a plural noun, derived in the fifteenth century from our long-established adjective "new". Its principal signification since around 1500 has been "Tidings; the report or account of recent events or occurrences, brought or coming to one as new information; new occurrences as a subject of report or talk." It is very often treated as a singular by the ignorant and ungrammatical. "New" itself is a common Teutonic word, derived from a common Aryan stem that appears also in Greek, Lithuanian, Sanscrit, Latin, Russian and Old Irish.
In this new section we will for the sake of a few of our members and readers set ourselves in the year 2115 and react, with notes, to the Guardian of 2015.
Here is one of our first news as it will appear one hundred years from now:
Notes:
1) Now-a-days the necessities of life are taken for granted. Every one wherever he may go will have housing and food available. This was not so in the evil days of 2015; people had to rely upon disorganized institutions called "charities" or "workhouses" to obtain shelter and food.
2) "Brits" means people normally resident in the island of "Britain". They are the ones who in 2023 built a wall right around the island - it was knocked down by right-thinking people within a year of its erection. The Brits had the silly conception that land could belong to people!
3) "Driven" here means travelled from one place to another. They sat in a mechanical device that passed through a kind of tunnel under the sea. They took food with them for other people because automatic supply was not instituted until 2048.
4) A "refugee" was a person whose life was disrupted by nearby nuisances. Then all they could do was move away, with considerable difficulty. Now, of course, such disruption would not be tolerated by our robots, and refugees are as extinct as slaves and workmen.
5) "Christian" refers to the widespread and popular system of "believing" if one did not "know". A horrid little German named "Kant" said he preferred to "know", but his "knowledge" was worse than others' beliefs.
6) Offering "housing". Now-a-days, if one finds oneself in a place without shelter and amenities these are constructed in a minute or two right on the spot, even if you need somewhere for just one night. A hundred years ago this was not yet possible - the construction of a residence could take several months, and a system of "inns" had been set up. But of course these were not always there or available when they were required!
7) Idi Amin was a giant negro born in Africa. His "regime" was set up by a few Brits for their own private purposes. Now, of course, they would go straight to prison if they attempted something like that.
8) "Uganda" - the name given to the wall or regime erected by a few Brits. They used to "travel" there for their "trade", "discussions" and "business".
9) "spare room" - a room for some reason not regularly used; see point 6. A kind of cross between an inn and a tent. When - late in life - our great composer Have-a-go H wrote and put out his five Brahmsian symphonies he did that mainly to take "his" mind off the travellers both in "his" spare room and - in tents, at first, later in cabins - in "his" back garden.
In this new section we will for the sake of a few of our members and readers set ourselves in the year 2115 and react, with notes, to the Guardian of 2015.
Here is one of our first news as it will appear one hundred years from now:
A range of charities[1] are seeing a surge of support, while “have-a-go” Brits[2] have driven[3] to Calais with supplies for people living in the makeshift refugee[4] camp. A Christian[5] charity, Housing Justice, has seen a large spike in the number of people offering housing[6] for refugees, with the Bristol mayor, George Ferguson – whose family took in a three-generation family fleeing the Idi Amin[7] regime in Uganda[8] in the 70s – [is] among those who have offered to give up a spare[9] room.
Notes:
1) Now-a-days the necessities of life are taken for granted. Every one wherever he may go will have housing and food available. This was not so in the evil days of 2015; people had to rely upon disorganized institutions called "charities" or "workhouses" to obtain shelter and food.
2) "Brits" means people normally resident in the island of "Britain". They are the ones who in 2023 built a wall right around the island - it was knocked down by right-thinking people within a year of its erection. The Brits had the silly conception that land could belong to people!
3) "Driven" here means travelled from one place to another. They sat in a mechanical device that passed through a kind of tunnel under the sea. They took food with them for other people because automatic supply was not instituted until 2048.
4) A "refugee" was a person whose life was disrupted by nearby nuisances. Then all they could do was move away, with considerable difficulty. Now, of course, such disruption would not be tolerated by our robots, and refugees are as extinct as slaves and workmen.
5) "Christian" refers to the widespread and popular system of "believing" if one did not "know". A horrid little German named "Kant" said he preferred to "know", but his "knowledge" was worse than others' beliefs.
6) Offering "housing". Now-a-days, if one finds oneself in a place without shelter and amenities these are constructed in a minute or two right on the spot, even if you need somewhere for just one night. A hundred years ago this was not yet possible - the construction of a residence could take several months, and a system of "inns" had been set up. But of course these were not always there or available when they were required!
7) Idi Amin was a giant negro born in Africa. His "regime" was set up by a few Brits for their own private purposes. Now, of course, they would go straight to prison if they attempted something like that.
8) "Uganda" - the name given to the wall or regime erected by a few Brits. They used to "travel" there for their "trade", "discussions" and "business".
9) "spare room" - a room for some reason not regularly used; see point 6. A kind of cross between an inn and a tent. When - late in life - our great composer Have-a-go H wrote and put out his five Brahmsian symphonies he did that mainly to take "his" mind off the travellers both in "his" spare room and - in tents, at first, later in cabins - in "his" back garden.