George Orwell
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3 Quotations from George Orwell
| newspeak n. | 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four i. 51 Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. |
| telescreen n. | 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four i. 8 Behind Winston’s back the telescreen was still babbling away about big iron and the overfulfillment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. |
| unperson n. | 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four v. 160 It was inconceivable that this was anything other than a reference to Syme. But Syme was not only dead, he was abolished, an unperson. Any identifiable reference to him would have been mortally dangerous. |