Linguistic Evolution is Inevitable But Not Always Benign

I remember reading Orwell’s 1984 in high school and hating it. I was a teenager more interested in robots, aliens, blasters, and adventure, than in the dystopia and dialogue of 1984, and the depth of Orwell’s analysis of authoritarian regimes was wasted on me. Times have changed and while the novelty and excitement of Star Wars has faded over time, the …