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"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
This is from the book isn’t? I’m currently reading it and read something similar, a conversation between Winston and Syme. It’s where Syme;
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Explains about OldSpeak and NewSpeak. How they have now the eleventh edition and are removing the “unnecessary” words. Such as removing ‘bad’ and just make it “ungood”Note… I kind of wish Lemmy changes the way spoiler tags works.