It's one thing to own a printing press, but it is an entirely different league when you control the very language and its usage. This is a minor event in the la

It's one thing to own a printing press, but it is an entirely different league when you control the very language and its usage. This is a minor event in the larger context of control over the language of discourse. 1984 features control over language, and subsequent distortion of the meaning of words, as one of the main methods of societal control in the depicted dystopian society. ~ But playing this game can be fun! For example, my Apple Inc. supplied dictionary defines "main" using terms such as "dominance", "supreme", "paramount", "preeminent". So, it remains about "power", "position", and "authority". As some suggested, "default" would have served the stated functional purpose of the word switch, without substituting one power word for another: "a preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism when no alternative is specified by the user or programmer: the default is fifty lines"