November 14, 2008

Newspeak

My goal is to post something every day. Now that I’ve done that, I have to think of something to write. I wandered around this morning and came up with Newspeak, described in the Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as ”the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year“. I like the word “duckspeak.”
duckspeak [...]