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Revised intro - thinking of including some of the famous formulations later (doubleplusgood, etc.)
'''Newspeak''' was a invented [[language]] mentioned in [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[1984]]'' designed not to express thought as much as to suppress it. Through a process of simplifying the language, what we would call today "dumbing it down", the [[totalitarian]] [[socialist]]s in the novel intended to produce a society of people who spoke without saying anything. The highest compliment to be given to a political orator would be a "doubleplusgood duckspeaker".
'''Newspeak''' appears in [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[1984]]''. It is a [[language]], designed by the ruling regime [[Ingsoc]] to replace Oldspeak ([[English]]).
Its purpose is to suppress thought by severely curtailing both the conceptual vocabulary and permissable grammatical structures of Oldspeak. As Orwell describes in the Appendix: "....a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc should be literally unthinkable, at least insofar as thought is dependent on words." <ref>p. 312, 1984 - George Orwell, Penguin, 1984</ref>
It is a terrifying notion, not least for its plausibility and the games we see played with words and meanings by those in power today.
== See also ==
* [[Doublethink]]
* [[Thoughtcrime]]
* [[Crimestop]]
==References==
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