Related to this essay is the appendix from 1984, containing a discussion on the principles of Newspeak.

http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app

Really good essay, thanks for reminding me of that one. I believe it's been posted to HN before (I read it from a link here), but it may have been another comment suggesting it.

  But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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I saw it here first as well. It's made a number of appearances: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fwww.mtholyoke.edu%...

hey dang, how about a category link that automatically recycles classic submissions like this?