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‘It could disappear for ever’: Anger over sale of George Orwell archive (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is from the book isn’t? I’m currently reading it and read something similar, a conversation between Winston and Syme. It’s where Syme;

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Explains about OldSpeak and NewSpeak. How they have now the eleventh edition and are removing the “unnecessary” words. Such as removing ‘bad’ and just make it “ungood”

Note… I kind of wish Lemmy changes the way spoiler tags works.