Newspeak

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Newspeak is a fictional variant of the English language, from George Orwell's dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the book, it was a systematic way of forcing the "IngSoc" totalitarian ideology, by creating "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."[1] The word can be used to mean any kind of 'propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings'.[2]

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