"If you can't write, you can't think." (Score 1)

A writing prof of mine once said this, ``If you can't write, you can't think." It's a bit harsh, but I've come to believe it's true. If you can't put your thoughts into words, there's no evidence to others that you have interesting or worthwhile thoughts. In this way, society's custodians of language references shape the way we think. If our society's custodians of language references start omitting certain families of words (offensive words, words for criticism, etc.) they start affecting the way we think. This effect is much more subtle and insidious than the outright criminalizing of certain types of thoughts (a la 1984, which I don't remember much of, by the way).

So, to anyone who wants to doctor my children's dictionaries, my children's thesauri, my children's encyclopedias, I cry foul. We should absolutely not stand for such things. I hope that legitimate custodians of the English language (Roget, Webster, Oxford, etc.) stand up and shine a spotlight on Micro$oft's unpardonable actions.