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dnlbyl
on July 20, 2015
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Toki Pona: a human language with 120 words
You inspired me to look into this more and it turns out that George Orwell was inspired to invent Newspeak (from his book 1984) from his experience with Basic English. He was initially a big proponent of it but eventually turn against the idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
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