Lindsay, with A Voyage to Arcturus, tests the same visionary and linguistic envelopes. In the Orwellian view of language, the reduction of vocabulary to a functional and brutal Sun-speak is seen as a means of limiting the population's consciousness itself; pruning the gorgeous wilderness of language back to predetermined boundaries...
source: Alan Moore's Introduction to A Voyage to Arcturus
Can you please explain the meaning of Sun-speak? It is nowhere to be found.
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