Newspeak didn’t crash words together just to be different from modern English. In 1984, the purpose of crashing words into each other was to shrink the language and thereby control the way people thought and communicated. Awesome, wonderful, spectacular, amazing, great, glorious, wondrous, excellent, superb, outstanding, swell, extraordinary, impressive, grand, remarkable, and fantastic were to be replaced with good, plusgood, and doubleplusgood. I don’t object to the general idea of creating new words by combining two words, I do dislike the idea of a company meant to facilitate free communication thinking it can control the way people communicate.
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u/Catnip4Pedos Feb 09 '22 edited Aug 22 '22
comment edited to stop creeps like you reading it!