I’m in the middle of Orwell’s 1984 and I haven’t gotten very far, but I have gotten to the descriptions of Newspeak and the dictionaries that they are creating for the new-fangled vocabulary. If you’ve never read 1984, “Newspeak” is the society’s attempt to combine words in order to make them shorter. Sort of a [...]
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Newspeak
Posted in dystopia, literature, science fiction on August 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
