Orwell hätte es nicht besser formulieren können: "The Hellenic Republic announced that it completed today - the third and final settlement of the invitations made on 24 Feb 2012 to exchange and consent to amendments to 135 series of bonds having an aggregate principal amount of approx. € 205,5 billion. The invitations related to bonds issued by the Republic as well as bonds issued by state-owned enterprises and guaranteed by the Republic. Following the final settlement, the Republic will have restructured app. € 199 billion (96,9 %)"... [...] "We are extremely pleased with the results achieved in our PSI bond exchange, and we extend our thanks to all of our creditors who have responded positively to our invitations" said Phillipos Sachinidis, Minister of Finance" Besonders gelungen finde ich, dass von "Invitations" gesprochen wird, dem Leser soll anscheinend immer noch suggeriert werden, dass jeder Investor eine Wahl hatte! Anmerkung aus Wikipedia: Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it refers to the deliberately impoverished language promoted by the state. Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an appendix[1] in which the basic principles of the language are explained. Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking—"thoughtcrime", or "crimethink" in the newest edition of Newspeak—impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on. One character, Syme, says admiringly of the shrinking volume of the new dictionary: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. |