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After trying for months without any success, finally, last week I received a telegram confirming that George Orwell accepted an interview with me. For those who don't who is G. Orwell, he is the author of numerous essays and the author of Animal Farm, book that I strongly recommend for its originality and for being the simplest and the best explanation of what is going on right now in the Soviet Union. In June of this year, George Orwell published a new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which has already thousands of copies sold in the United Kingdom. This dystopian novel describes a totalitarian country in a world constantly in war ruled by The Big Brother, which I personally find very close to Stalin and the USSR. Last week, this magnificent …show more content…

Could you explain in depth this concept?''

''- The concept is called linguistic determinism or Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and basically holds that thought is determined by language, so any change in one language will make an actual change in how its users behave and think. In this case, if the word freedom disappears, it would be really hard or even impossible for the Newspeak speakers that have never heard this word to think about the actual concept of freedom, which would be an enormous advantage for a totalitarian state.''

''- But then, could this idea be used nowadays to provoke the same effect with words or concepts like, for example, love or hate, peace or war? Would it be possible to slave a nation by just changing the language it uses? Is this something that we should be afraid …show more content…

Great piece of work, by the way.''

''- Thank you very much.''

''- In the essay you write: “A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”(Orwell, 1946)² Why do you think that English is now becoming ugly and inaccurate?''

''- In the essay I express my disappointment with the use that politicians and writers give to the English language. For example, when listening to the speech of a politician you may hear: “In my opinion it is not an unjustifiable assumption that...” instead of saying “I think” (Orwell, 1946)² . This is an excessive use of archaic words that makes the actual speech harder to understand and that is not at all necessary, but is used to make it sound more formal and ''beautiful'', it's not logical.''

''- So how can we escape from the vicious circle that you described with the example of the alcoholic

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