On: The Principles of Newspeak (1949)

[mdp2021]

Thank you! I used "over" to suggest dominance. Surely you "do something better with something", but I wanted to express "the acquired capacity of "advanced doing" covering the subject" ("get advanced-doingness over").

[robertlagrant → mdp2021]

I just sprang into existence to fulfil the internet's promise to correct someone who mentions correct language on the Internet. I shall now disappear.

[mdp2021 → robertlagrant]

:)

Ah, but I never said «correct language» [though in some cones of meaning - "well-tailored hence right" - I also mean that]: I said "out-of-awareness language".

You need that to bend it, so you somehow need that to use it.

[kthejoker2 → mdp2021]

The common English phrase for language dominance would be "command of" the language.

You could also say "mastery over" the language.