The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository ProseArthur M. Eastman |
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... Oldspeak ( or Standard English , as we should call it ) by about the year 2050. Meanwhile it gained ground steadily , all Party mem- bers tending to use Newspeak words and grammatical constructions more and more in their everyday speech ...
... Oldspeak ( or Standard English , as we should call it ) by about the year 2050. Meanwhile it gained ground steadily , all Party mem- bers tending to use Newspeak words and grammatical constructions more and more in their everyday speech ...
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... Oldspeak . For example , All mans are equal was a possible Newspeak sentence , but only in the same sense in which All men are redhaired is a possible Oldspeak sen- tence . It did not contain a grammatical error , but it expressed a ...
... Oldspeak . For example , All mans are equal was a possible Newspeak sentence , but only in the same sense in which All men are redhaired is a possible Oldspeak sen- tence . It did not contain a grammatical error , but it expressed a ...
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... Oldspeak it was possible to read them . In the future such fragments , even if they chanced to survive , would be unintel- ligible and untranslatable . It was impossible to translate any pas- sage of Oldspeak into Newspeak unless it ...
... Oldspeak it was possible to read them . In the future such fragments , even if they chanced to survive , would be unintel- ligible and untranslatable . It was impossible to translate any pas- sage of Oldspeak into Newspeak unless it ...
Contents
Dylan Thomas Memories of Christmas | 1 |
Allan Seager The Joys of Sport at Oxford | 11 |
A J Liebling Poet and Pedagogue | 22 |
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