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Octafish

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28. ''The Principles of Newspeak''
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 01:04 PM
Apr 2014

An appendix to 1984
Written by : George Orwell in 1948

EXCERPT...

The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought -- that is, a thought diverging from the principles of IngSoc -- should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meaning and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meaning whatever.

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http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html

A prison is a prison. And, thus, we see US citizens getting locked behind the bars in their own heads -- except the 1-percent who can afford to travel, no matter the price of a barrel of oil.

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