I think the meaning is different enough that it's not the same thing. Editors and writers talk about excising unnecessary words from specific sentences where th

I think the meaning is different enough that it's not the same thing. Editors and writers talk about excising unnecessary words from specific sentences where they aren't helping the reader understand your meaning. But, they're not saying that you should remove those words from your vocabulary and never use them, which is what Newspeak was about.