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Ford_Prefect

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6. It was "Newspeak" in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four", although McEnany uses the minor version.

Reply to JoeOtterbein (Original post)

Sat Nov 21, 2020, 03:07 AM

Nov 2020

Newspeak, propagandistic language that is characterized by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings. The term was coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Newspeak, “designed to diminish the range of thought,” was the language preferred by Big Brother’s pervasive enforcers.

https://www.britannica.com/art/newspeak

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