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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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @LuigiHann
Why wouldn't it just be "verygood" and "soverygood"
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