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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's one of the themes of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"; that removing a word (like "rebellion") from the language, means that people will no longer be able to imagine the concept expressed by the word.
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Jack Vance built THE LANGUAGES OF PAO on that theory.
It's something of a causality question, ala chicken-and-egg, though not as easy to solve/verify as languages evolve in many ways.