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On Jan 28, 5:48*pm, J G Miller wrote:
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why not let your adult children spy on you.

If the worst comes to the worst, they can report you for thoughtcrime
to the branch of your local Conservative and Unionist Party , if, in
an unguarded moment you dare to criticize the policies of Big Brother David.

In other doubleplusgood news, chocolate rations were increased from
15 grammes per week to 10 grammes per week.

"grammes"?

http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochur.../kilogram.html

Charlie

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:33:05 -0800 (PST), Charlie Pearce
wrote:

On Jan 28, 5:48*pm, J G Miller wrote:
Turn your Samsung Smart TV into a two way telescreen just like
in the 1984 Big Brother society with an add on camera.

http://www.leconcepts.COM/products/lcd-tvs/1216-samsung-cy-stc1100-sm...

Remember, if you have something to hide from the camera,
you must be doing something wrong.

And if the government do not take advantage of the camera in the room,
why not let your adult children spy on you.

If the worst comes to the worst, they can report you for thoughtcrime
to the branch of your local Conservative and Unionist Party , if, in
an unguarded moment you dare to criticize the policies of Big Brother David.

In other doubleplusgood news, chocolate rations were increased from
15 grammes per week to 10 grammes per week.

"grammes"?

http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochur.../kilogram.html


http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gram?q=gram

gram 1
(British also gramme...
...

Origin:
late 18th century: from French gramme, from late Latin gramma 'a
small weight', from Greek

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

On Monday, January 30th, 2012, at 06:33:05h -0800, Charlie Pearce asked:

On Jan 28, 5:48Â*pm, J G Miller wrote:

In other doubleplusgood news, chocolate rations were increased from 15
grammes per week to 10 grammes per week.

"grammes"?

That is how Eric Blair spelt the word.

In article , J G Miller wrote:

"grammes"?

That is how Eric Blair spelt the word.

Not in the edition of 1984 I just checked, but of course the publishers
may have changed it.

-- Richard

J G Miller wrote:
On Monday, January 30th, 2012, at 06:33:05h -0800, Charlie Pearce asked:
On Jan 28, 5:48 pm, J G Miller wrote:
In other doubleplusgood news, chocolate rations were increased from 15
grammes per week to 10 grammes per week.
"grammes"?

That is how Eric Blair spelt the word.
Gedditt?

Bill

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:53:22 +0000 (UTC),
(Richard Tobin) wrote:

In article , J G Miller wrote:

"grammes"?

That is how Eric Blair spelt the word.

Not in the edition of 1984 I just checked, but of course the publishers
may have changed it.

If it was "grammes" in the original that might have been because that
was the normal French spelling. Blair had close relative who were French
and he lived in Paris for some time. Also at the time of writing the
metric system was used in science but not in everyday life in the UK.

At the time he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four chocolate would have been sold
in ounces not gram(me)s. His use of that unit might have been as part of
the creation in the story of a background of enforced uniformity.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

In article ,
Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:53:22 +0000 (UTC),
(Richard Tobin) wrote:

In article , J G Miller wrote:

"grammes"?

That is how Eric Blair spelt the word.

Not in the edition of 1984 I just checked, but of course the publishers
may have changed it.

If it was "grammes" in the original that might have been because that
was the normal French spelling. Blair had close relative who were French
and he lived in Paris for some time. Also at the time of writing the
metric system was used in science but not in everyday life in the UK.

'gram' was what I was taught at school - 1950s.


At the time he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four

which was in 1948

chocolate would have been sold in ounces not gram(me)s. His use of that
unit might have been as part of the creation in the story of a background
of enforced uniformity.

--
From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16

On Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 16:32:18h +0000, Peter Duncanson wrote:

If it was "grammes" in the original that might have been because that
was the normal French spelling.

It was also the spelling in English English which has gradually
been supplanted by the North American English spelling.

If you insist on spelling gramme as gram, you are inconsistent
if you do not also insist on spelling tonne as ton,
and metre as meter.


From http://www.george-orwell.ORG/1984/3.html

which is surely an authoritative source

QUOTE

Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to
be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the
present week.

UNQUOTE

At the time he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four chocolate would have been sold
in ounces not gram(me)s. His use of that unit might have been as part of
the creation in the story of a background of enforced uniformity.

Indeed so, just as he wrote

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

On Monday, January 30th, 2012, at 16:32:18h +0000, Peter Duncanson wrote:

His use of that unit might have been as part of
the creation in the story of a background of enforced uniformity.

And do you not also recall that part of the back story of 1984
touch upon the change over to metric units with one character complaining
that a half litre (liter) of beer was not enough and a full litre
(liter) of beer was too much and the he longed for the pint before
IngSoc came to power?