Yo while we're canceling Orwell can we talk about how annoying the "plus" and "doubleplus" prefixes are Newspeak is supposed to prioritize euphony above all else, right? Well nobody would actually put "plus" and "doubleplus" into a simplified sped-up version of English
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Wouldn't Big Brother have decimalised time anyway?
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I think he actually believed that language had such powers, cf. his mildly disappointing (many interesting observations notwithstanding) "Politics and the English Language".
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I find interesting the role that Newspeak plays in the intellectual life of Orwellites (yuuuge) compared to 1984 (virtually none). Most important thing about it is the tense of the appendix, which is *past*. The only glimmer of hope in the book.
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