Peter's suggestion that Lunar bureaucrats overuse the double negative takes on
yet more lustre when we recall my old suggestion that the New Pelorian language
may be deliberately evolving towards an Orwellian Newspeak: a language which
implicitly contains and supports one ideological view of the world, from which
no expression of dissent can be made. So, is calling something
"doubleplusungood" different from calling it "doubleminusgood"? Maybe so, in the
mind of the bureaucrat penning such a discreet gem...
Of course, Gene Wolfe's Ascians are a Good Thing too: maybe for one of Martin's
obsessively-scriptural by-the-Book Malkioni heresies. (Anyone who hasn't read
the Book of the New Sun should now do so, by Imperial Command).
Nick