Who owns language?

On October 19, 2058, Dr. Smith Q Smith was led into a chamber buried under the US Department of Sacred Language. He was interviewed by Judge Garble Definite III. This is a partial transcript:
Judge: Do you know why you’re here today, Dr. Smith?
Smith: I was told by the battalion that arrested me at my office that I was violating Federal Code X-Prime.
Judge: That is correct. Your violation is extreme. You informed a patient that his flu wasn’t the flu. This is a contradiction that carries a potential 20-year sentence at the Trilateral Work Farm on Okinawa.
Smith: Your Honor, semantics is the only issue here.
Judge: That’s right, Doctor. Which is why your crime is so grave. First of all, the word ‘flu’ is owned by the US Federal Merck Glaxo Homeland Security Agency. Do you realize that?
Smith: That’s what I’ve been told.
Judge: Let me explain. When a person has a certain set of symptoms like cough, fever, fatigue – and all this is spelled out in the Manual – you, the doctor say: ‘Flu.’ That’s how you use the word. You don’t make conditions. You don’t shrink back. You don’t contradict yourself. You say: ‘Flu.’ The owners of the word demand it.

This post was published at Jon Rappoport on September 26, 2015.