can't believe 1984 is just "what if… the sapir-whorf hypothesis were true?"
me: *squints at newspeak* so, chinese? german? sometimes my notes to myself look like this tbh
anyway, I'm skimming 1984 as the Classic Touchstone Title that my novella will possibly be comped to, and my impression so far is, cool worldbuilding, boring character, and please for the love of god talk to a linguist
"we're cutting language down to the bone! no more thought crimes now that the vocabulary is limited!"

me: *stares into the camera in pidgins & creoles*
orwell: what if… instead of "good" and "bad" you have "good" and "ungood"

me: *stares into the camera in the entire field of morphology*
orwell: the sinister thing about newspeak is there are so many cryptic contractions and so much jargon! ooooooh nothing like that could exist!

us military: the abbreviation of "united states indo-pacific command" is "usindopacom"
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