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    • Zipporah Schumakerundefined
      Zipporah Schumaker
      last edited by admin

      In George Orwells [dystopia] [Nineteen Eighty-Four], Newspeak was the corrupted/purged language everyone was supposed to speak according to the totalitarian dictatorship which ran everything. Words with subversive potential and those which had unclear meanings were eliminated, along with references to the past. The attempt was to bring language, and therefore thought, into line with the wishes of the rulers.
      It is also used to refer to any instance of politically-invented language put out through apparatuses of propaganda and social control or by spindoctors.
      Words like people-trafficker, collateral damage and [downsizing] are examples of real-world Newspeak.

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        Newspeak meaning & definition 1 of Newspeak.

      • Tinaundefined
        Tina
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        Ambiguous euphemistic language used chiefly in political propaganda.

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          Newspeak meaning & definition 2 of Newspeak.

        • PussyCatundefined
          PussyCat
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          language used by politicians and government officials that is intentionally difficult to understand or does not mean what it seems to mean and is therefore likely to confuse or deceive people

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            Newspeak meaning & definition 3 of Newspeak.

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