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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Oldspeak en · NOUN
Etymology
From old + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Meanings
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(alt-of, uncountable, usually) Alternative letter-case form of oldspeak.
Forms
wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Oldspeak en · PROPN
Etymology
From old + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Meanings
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Synonym of Standard English.
Newspeak words are divided into three classes, A for words denoting functional concepts of everyday life like eating, and sleeping, preserving many Oldspeak words.
2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet:
Synonyms
Standard English
wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four