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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4.1987. PAGE5 The English language, as she is spoke, can be confusing to many, including those who think they understand it. One once felt sorry for those whose mother tongue was, or is, not English. Nowadays, one tends to feel sorry for those whose mother tongue is, or was, English. The language we lear- ned as school children at grandfather's knee lives no more. Was it Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World, or George Orwell, in 1984, - one or the other, I can never remember whiéh - who coined the phrase Newspeak? Or Doublethink. Or both. Anyway, the idea conceived as language as the moulder (or is it molder) of thought. Change the language and you change the thought. "Nonsense," Grandad cried. "No tongue-twister can tie up a straight-thinking man." I wanted him to expand on the thought, but he was busy at the time signing up for the purchase of a set of encyclopediums to help his straight thinking. He could have used them, too, since the salesman disappeared with the $20 deposit and he never did see the books. But back to the case in point: we used to hold to the faith that words, and language, were inviolable. Huh. Nowadays there are prizes for-violations, the cruder the better. Newspeak is with us already. This came to mind the other day when someone accused me of being old enough to remember when Air Canada was TCA. "That's right," we replied. "I also can remember when the Leafs won not only games but Stanley Cups." Our whole society seems to be rife with name and meaning changes. Pearson International used to be Toronto International; Montreal Alouettes used to be Concords, I think, before which they were the Alouettes. Whatever that illustrates. WITH OUR FEETUP by Bill Swan Language is confusing And cars once had generators. Sometime in the past ten or fifteen years, generators have been replaced by alter- nators. Now to some I know that sounds like a comment on the car's sex life. But cars run as well or even better with alterated parts. Fido never did, but you never can tell. At any rate, most of the world today is finding out what women have known for centuries: that taking on a new name changes not only how others think about you, but how you think about yourself. Does every flirty Miss recoil in shock when she finds that young men don't pine for her in quite the same way now she is Mrs. Quertyuiop? But back to Newspeak: once upon a time we had two railways in this country, and trains ran on time. Then some crat scratched his bureau and Viola! we had VIA rail and deficits and late trains. If you think you can't fall victim to this same process, think of towns like Galt, Port William, Fort Arthur, Leaside, Brooklin. Some oldtimers may recall the names, but now they're all part of larger communities. The rest is history. Computers have multilated the .language in ways beyond imaginings. We now talk of hardware, software, input, floppies, and data bases connected with modems. ASCII codes. Which brings to mind the coined word of the month. Rod Clark of Ajax, one of the second-year jour- nalism students at Durham College, encountered some difficulty in converting a word-processing file into its ASCII equivalent. For computer people, that's significant. Since it wasn't quite ASCII (pronounced ask-key) Clark pronounced it half-ASCII. It is a word I hope will stay with us. One of the few attempts at name change that failed was the renaming of the Highway 401. Someone - another bureau crat (that's two words, a subject and a verb, as in 'The dog sat,' or 'The baby spat,' and 'The bureau crat,' - got the idea about Centennial year (1967) that such a highWay should honor two of the Fathers of Con- federation. Thus, the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway. They couldn't make that stick, so within eighteen months the old monicker - the , Four-oh-one - became officially recognized again. Harking back to thinking straight, one recalls a proof- reader in the flower - child sixties. You remember flower- children: smiling, guitar carrying, pot-smoking hippies, the same people who now buy into yuppie subdivisions with brass mailboxes and who "do lunch." One day the proof-reader came running into the editor's office. She had picked up a phrase which, she said, should never run in any self-respecting newspaper. The phrase: someone was planning to "do his own thing." Which only proves that language may be in the eye of the beholder. Or reader, Or whatever. By MIKE JOHNSTON A sidewalk will be considered for Blair St. when residential development gets underway in the area. The decision was reaffirmed af- ter a resident of the area, Amanda McKee, appeared before the Town's operations committee for a second time. She had appeared before com- mittee in January requesting the sidewalk be built in 1987. Commit- tee and, a week later, council decided to wait until 1988 before considering the sidewalk. Committee members reaffirmed that decision Monday night; much to the chagrin of McKee who poin- ted out that Blair St. is similar to Hopkins St. On Hopkins St. in February, 14- year-old Craig Hollpy was killed, the victim of a hit-and-run ac- cident. "We don't want that situation to occur on Blair" said McKee. "This report is not encouraging. It seems there is no dispute the sidewalk is needed. The problems seem to be money and timing," she told committee members. The report to which McKee referred was from the public works department which estimated that it would cost the Town $15,500 to build the sidewalk from Burns St. to Dundas St. The actual price of the sidewalk is estimated at $69,000, but the Town would only pay $15,500 in lieu of contributions from developers in the area. "For the Town, $15,500 is not a big commitment, so the main problem is timing," concluded McKee. The town has decided to hold off building the sidewalk until work begins on the Oak Road develop- ment, 16 homes fronting Blair St. Construction on the homes has not yet begun. McKee asked the committee to put the sidewalk money in reserve in case development does not begin this year. "Set the money aside to put the sidewalk in as soon as possible. I would hate to see the fall 1987 op- portunity missed." Councillor Tom Edwards agreed, and made a motion that if Oak Road does not start construction in 1987 that the sidewalk be construc- ted anyway in 1988. Sorichetti proposes buildings The Sorichetti Group is proposing to build six industrial buildings on properties west of Centre St. N. and north of Beech St. At a public meeting Monday, Gary Sorichetti said the buildings would be for local businessmen, such as plumbers or electricians, who need a small office or storage space. The property is now zoned in- dustrial. 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