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Strictly speaking, neither German nor Russian is an agglutinative language. The difference between them and English is one of spelling, that in German a compound is written as one word ("Physiklehrer") while in English it is written as two ("physics teacher"). Russian in fact often will use a combination of "(noun-derived) adjective + noun" where German and English use "noun + noun" compounds. The feature that Orwell imitated in Newspeak was a way of combining clipped elements of different words into one, because that became very pronounced in the language used by the Nazi and Soviet Communist regimes. However, linguistically speaking they are not that different from [[Portmanteau]] words (e. g. "brunch") or [[Fun with Acronyms|acronyms]] pronounced as words (e. g. "radar", "laser") and such constructions were freely, if less frequently, used before, after and apart from the two totalitarian regimes.

 

* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]

* [[Thoughtcrime]]

Of course, unlike Lewis Carroll, Orwell was not '''''actually''''' trying to popularize an [[Misaimed Fandom|approach to the English Language]].

 

* [[The Index Is Watching You|Conspiracy Tropes]]

* [[You Would Not Want to Live In Dex|Dystopia Tropes]]

* [[Help Help This Index Is Being Repressed|Oppression Tropes]]

* [[George Orwell|Orwellian]]

* [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]

 

* [[Airstrip One]]

* [[CamelCase|BiCapitalization]]

* [[We Will Use Wiki Words in the Future]]: we do.

 

* [[Room 101]]

* [[Orwellian Retcon]]

 

 

* [[Internal Retcon]]

* [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]]

 

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