March 24 – Contumelious?

Contumelious?
Impertinent! Impudent!
I miss the old words.

I miss the old words but when you have room for a total of 17 syllables, what are you going to do?

It’s scary for me because when I read 1984 and Winston worked rewriting the dictionary into newspeak, I couldn’t imagine how words could be eliminated.


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