The premise of George Orwell’s 1984 was that if you limit someone’s linguistic capabilities then you also limit their ability to think complex thoughts. By preventing someone from knowing the words for, say, democracy or freedom then you prevent them from knowing the concept of democracy or freedom. This comes from the linguistic theory that language determines how your brain can think. Unfortunately, that’s not entirely true because your brain obviously reacts to external stimuli. So if you experience oppression, you can still feel it and react to it, even if you don’t know the name of it.
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