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I chose the name WikiSpeak based on George Orwell's fictional language Newspeak, described in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as being "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year". As the essay developed, I came to realise that it owed at least as much to the pioneering work of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
It is meant to be taken no more or less seriously than either of those two works. Please feel to contribute so long as you don't breach any of wikipedia's increasingly arcane and bizarre policies or guidelines