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- From: David Byrden <Goyra@iol.ie>
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- Subject: Re: C++ and George Orwell
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 19:23:10 GMT
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- ma@informatik.uni-kiel.de (Martin Ameskamp) wrote:
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- > In the appendix, Orwell describes 'Newspeak', which tries to do
- > away with redundancy and ambiguity as much as possibly. One of
- > the ways of doing this is to reduce comparatives and superlatives
- > to simple schemes, using the words (and signs?) plus and
- > doubleplus.
- > I only remember the example 'doubleplusungood'.
- >
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- I always think of the ghastly Newspeak and its "doubleplusgood" when
- I hear that a company was "downsized". Why not "shrunk"?
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- David
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