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newspeak
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new·speak  (nspk, ny-)
n.
Deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public.
[From Newspeak, a language invented by George Orwell in the novel 1984.]
newspeak [ˈnjuːˌspiːk]
n
the language of bureaucrats and politicians, regarded as deliberately ambiguous and misleading
[from 1984, a novel by George Orwell]
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Noun1.newspeak - deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language use to mislead and manipulate the public; "the welfare state brought its own newspeak"
manufacturing, manufacture, fabrication - the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"
Translations
newspeak [ˈnjuːspiːk] N → neolengua f
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Orwell declares, "When Oldspeak had been once and for all superseded, the last link with the past would have been severed.
Twitter as newspeak by Silverblatt, Art / St. Louis Journalism Review
But it's not a rapture or a snatching of people up to heaven for seven years" (John Whitehead, "God So Loved the World That He Gave Us World War II," The Rutherford Files: oldSpeak, The Rutherford Institute, 4 June 2005, www.
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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.
A linguistic-based measure of cultural distance and its relationship ... by West, Joel; Graham, John L. / Management International Review
 
 
 
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