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  There are two types of linguistic relativity: "strong" and "weak". Usually, when people simply say "linguistic relativity", they're talking about the strong view. **In the "strong" view**, language limits your thought, perception, etc. You'd be completely unable to understand certain concepts, unless your language has words for them. Nowadays we know it to be false, but in Orwell's times it was popular, and Orwell was clueless about how langua...

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  EDIT: check luciole’s comment, the cover is likely tin undergoing tin pest, not aluminium. The cover picture is likely gallium over aluminium, unrelated to medication. Metallic aluminium is surprisingly reactive, but usually you don’t notice it because it’s covered with a layer of oxide; so in the presence of certain other metals you get a vicious cycle, like: gallium leaks past the oxide layer, and forms an alloy with the aluminium aluminium in the alloy gets exposed to the air, so it becom...