Post-Dystopian.

I am reading through a bunch of “free write” essays that I had my students do in class yesterday. They just finished reading 1984 and I basically asked them to imagine how they thought Orwell would view the world we live in today. I wanted them to start making connections between the book and their lives, is all.

Well one of my students, in the middle of his free-write - which he only had ten minutes to think about and write - seems to have coined the term “post-dystopian”. What an interesting concept.

Maybe somebody else has come up with this already, but if they have, I’ve never heard of it and I’m a very fancy guy.

Anyway, I’m very proud of this kid. Tomorrow I’m going to ask him what exactly he meant.

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Orwell’s Linguists.

Orwell’s Linguists

By james bezerra

In 1984, George Orwell created “Newspeak” which is a language designed to prevent its speakers from being able to think for themselves by depriving them of the mental vocabulary required for abstract thought. 

This would have required, at some point prior to the year 1984, teams of linguists working together to design a language which would make it impossible, at some point after the year 1984, to then design a language.

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