Translations:Nineteen Eighty-Four/3/en

Nineteen Eighty-Four or 1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell. In the book, a totalitarian surveillance superstate (Oceania) enforces Newspeak, a simplified controlled language with a limited vocabulary, to suppress free and critical thinking. Hasty comparisons to Nineteen Eighty-Four are very common, to the point that an obscure nimi sin, owe ("Orwellian"), has been coined to joke about it. Whether Newspeak portrays government propaganda realistically in the first place is debatable. The strong Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is generally discredited, and Toki Pona calls into question whether a language can be used to constrain expression.