You're right about that -- many, many people's vocabularies are being greatly simplified. For example, 'awesome' has become the all-purpose positive adjective, like 'doubleplusgood' in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Really makes you wonder where Orwells insight really came from since most of what he wrote has and is coming true. Perhaps Orwell was suppose to write another book of the "bible" ? An addition to the book of Revelation ? Far fetched ? Probably.
@NyloStar Although Orwell lambasted any sort of rigid, rabid adherence to an ideology, nation or religion and wrote a critical essay on nationalism and other blind followings to ideologies, "1984" in particular is an attack on both the Communist regime of Stalin and the various Fascist and authoritarian regimes that had sprung up all over the world, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany especially.
@stormsirens2
You're right about that -- many, many people's vocabularies are being greatly simplified. For example, 'awesome' has become the all-purpose positive adjective, like 'doubleplusgood' in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
plusplusplusplusp 1 month ago
i read 1984 several times
CHRIS1974100 2 months ago
Gracias
lechuga66699 3 months ago
5:59 LOL - That's changed again.
Pmccaff2009 5 months ago
@omonamag Yeah I agree and it makes sense.I'm sure during Hitlers reign they probably thought the world was coming to an end which it did for some.
Thanks !
vangard213 7 months ago
@tangcameo These were made in the 90's
niceworkmicrosoft 9 months ago
Really makes you wonder where Orwells insight really came from since most of what he wrote has and is coming true. Perhaps Orwell was suppose to write another book of the "bible" ? An addition to the book of Revelation ? Far fetched ? Probably.
vangard213 1 year ago 2
@NyloStar Although Orwell lambasted any sort of rigid, rabid adherence to an ideology, nation or religion and wrote a critical essay on nationalism and other blind followings to ideologies, "1984" in particular is an attack on both the Communist regime of Stalin and the various Fascist and authoritarian regimes that had sprung up all over the world, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany especially.
TheGloryofToast 1 year ago
Definitely made before 2001 since Drabble says about Bin Laden "we're not sure what he's done".
tangcameo 2 years ago 2
News speak- the language of 1984, simplifing language....LOLspeak- simplification of language, used today
thats what it had figured out while reading and listening to the story!
O_O
stormsirens2 2 years ago 2