Nineteen Eighty-Four
Newspeak
Tuesday - 25Apr2017 Filed in: Quotes & Thinkums
““propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings””
— Merriam-Webster
““Newspeak is the language of Oceania, a fictional totalitarian state ruled by the Party, who created the language to meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism (Ingsoc).In George Orwell's world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak is a controlled language, of restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, a linguistic design meant to limit the freedom of thought—personal identity, self-expression, free will—that ideologically threatens the régime of Big Brother and the Party, who thus criminalised such concepts as thoughtcrime, contradictions of Ingsoc orthodoxy.””
— Wikipedia
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