It's a terrible choice He was just cheating again by making the Party make a decision that's objectively bad and silly to make you the reader dislike them and find their world alienating and upsetting, like the clocks striking thirteen
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I think you mean something other than "euphony", which would be a language that sounds musical to the ear
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It's the word he used
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true, and doubly so since the purported underlying reason behind Newspeak was to eliminate negative thoughts by removing negative words, so there's no logical point at which odd replacements for "very" would enter into it
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Why wouldn't it just be "verygood" and "soverygood"
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That assumes that the totalitarian government is perfectly organized and united in scientific purpose, as opposed to hundred of fiefdoms all trying to cover their asses and attempting to hold onto their positions while in constant fear of fucking up and being executed.
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orwell's college roommate was *really* into esperanto
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What's Orwell done?
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Nothing new I'm just losing my patience with Republicans who keep saying cancel culture is 1984
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