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George Orwell felt similarly. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
by notduncansmith 10y ago
George Orwell felt similarly. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
- Jtsummers 10y agoReally good essay, thanks for reminding me of that one. I believe it's been posted to HN before (I read it from a link here), but it may have been another comment suggesting it. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. (about 3/4 down)
- notduncansmith 10y agoI saw it here first as well. It's made a number of appearances: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fwww.mtholyoke.edu%2Facad%2Fintrel%2Forwell46.htm&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fwww.mtholyoke.edu%...
- firebones 10y agohey dang, how about a category link that automatically recycles classic submissions like this?
- ecdavis 10y agoRelated to this essay is the appendix from 1984, containing a discussion on the principles of Newspeak. http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app