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* Anthony Burgess plays with this as "Worker's English" (or WE) in his novel, ''1985'', written as a response to Orwell.
* Creator/AynRand's novella ''Anthem'' depicts a stagnant, collectivist future in which words like "I," "Me," "Mine," have been eliminated in favor of "We", "Us," and "Our." He/She has become "They." Other words have been eliminated as well, which the main character rediscovers from ancient texts. Rand's use of the basic concept even predates Orwell.
* Creator/AynRand's novella ''Anthem'' depicts a stagnant, collectivist future in which words like "I," "Me," "Mine," have been eliminated in favor of "We", "Us," and "Our." He/She has become "They." Other words have been eliminated as well, which the main character rediscovers from ancient texts. Rand's use of the basic concept even predates Orwell.
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* Anthony Burgess plays with this as "Worker's English" (or WE) in his novel, ''1985'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFive'', written as a response to Orwell.
* Creator/AynRand's novella''Anthem'' ''Literature/{{Anthem}}'' depicts a stagnant, collectivist future in which words like "I," "Me," "Mine," have been eliminated in favor of "We", "Us," and "Our." He/She has become "They." Other words have been eliminated as well, which the main character rediscovers from ancient texts. Rand's use of the basic concept even predates Orwell.
* Creator/AynRand's novella
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In one of the [[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse Of Horror]] specials, Homer's tampering with time creates an Orwellian Springfield with Ned Flanders as Big Brother: "Heidely-ho, slaverinos!" That's right. They [[IncrediblyLamePun Flander]]ized Newspeak.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In one of the [[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse Of Horror]] specials, Homer's tampering with time creates an Orwellian Springfield with Ned Flanders as Big Brother: "Heidely-ho, slaverinos!" That's right. They [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} Flander]]ized Newspeak.
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* The fate of the Khmer language, after Pol Pot's 4-year run. In order to create an agricultural society, all intelligentsia was thoroughly killed, people were removed from cities and words were deleted so peasants could only think about their work. Today, Khmer has to borrow a lot from English or make do with what is available, which means a whole line can be used just to say "floater". For the record, there was no word for "free" in common Khmer anymore when they took the english equivalent.
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* The fate of the Khmer language, after Pol Pot's 4-year run. In order to create an agricultural society, all intelligentsia was thoroughly killed, people were removed from cities and words were deleted so peasants could only think about their work. Today, Khmer has to borrow a lot from English or make do with what is available, which means a whole line can be used just to say "floater". For the record, there was no word for "free" in common Khmer anymore when they took the english English equivalent.
