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In George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak is a prominent example of linguistic determinism. Orwell himself said that if humans cannot form the words to express the ideas underlying revolution, then they cannot revolt. All of the theory of newspeak is aimed at eliminating such words, for example "bad" is replaced by "ungood" and the concept of freedom is eliminated over time. The result of the adoption of such a language is that heretical thought should be literally unthinkable, atleast so far as thought is dependant on words. After all, we cannot define a new word without using words that have already created.

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