"'It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well'" (51).
In his creation of Newspeak, George Orwell seems to have partially prophesied the language of texting. Words like "Minitrue" (Ministry of Truth) or "duckspeak" (to quack like a duck), or even "stealed" (the new past tense of to steal) seem to have eerily foreshadowed the incorrect grammar and shortened words that have developed on their own today. Unlike texting lingo, though, Newspeak was created and made to become accepted into society in order to shrink the range of possible thoughts, rather than to shrink the time it takes to express any possible thought or emotion.
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