In George Orwell’s book 1984, the language of the fictional totalitarian state is called Newspeak. Quoting Wikipedia, Newspeak, “is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit a person’s ability for critical thinking and thus limit the person’s ability to articulate abstract concepts, such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will… Newspeak follows most rules of English grammar, yet is a language characterised by a continually diminishing vocabulary; complete thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning…”. Sound familiar?
The good “Ingsocs” must be relying on George Orwell’s 19th Edition of Newspeak dictionary and thesaurus.
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