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  The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

tagged: power, language
  —Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick (How to Build a Universe That Won't Fall Apart in Two Days) .

ftw

I had been seeing “ftw” in internet chit chat for a while, and I just finally got around to looking it up and seeing what it actually means: “for the win”.

In the meantime, I had just sort of assumed it was an inversion of “wtf” — sort of taking the aghastness of “wtf” and adding onto it a fillip of “wack”! So I’d been reading it as “fuck the what!”. I actually like that a lot better than “for the win”.

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2 Responses to “ftw”

  1. eric Says:

    I always thought it meant Fuck the World (at least that’s what it once meant, in the pre-internet 1980s, when FTW was a tag used by a number of gangs)

  2. LQ Says:

    oh yeah! fuck the world. i’d forgotten about that. that’s better too.

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