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Language – Part II

Language – Part II

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I remember reading Orwell’s 1984 in high school and hating it.  There is a good reason for that, I was a Science Fiction fan growing up in the age of Star Wars, Star Trek, and other space-based adventures.  I also read Heinlein, Niven, and Pournelle books.  Where these had robots, aliens, blasters, and adventure, 1984 had dystopia and dialogue.  The dep…

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