Those Orwellian Ascians

Andy Robertson · 28 Jul 2002, 09:43 · from urth-v0207.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Those Orwellian Ascians
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:43:02 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Andre-Driussi" <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
>
> Orwell's novel, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, has "Newspeak," which is a
> state-created lexicon of ever simplified words, standardized grammer,
etc.,
> that was expected to replace English by 2050.

Can any educated person be ignorant of this?

I think it was I who bought up the Orwell reference: but I assumed everyone
knew about Newspeak.   :-)


    hartshorn


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