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| − | '''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 | + | '''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". |
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Revision as of 18:04, May 2, 2007
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 socialists 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".