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War and peace: those words are forbidden in Russia today | Elena Kostyuchenko (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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George Orwell - 1984. '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. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms."

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