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newspeak
official speech of Oceania; language of contradictions. [Br. Lit.: 1984]
See : Hypocrisy

Newspeak - A language inspired by Scratchpad.

[J.K. Foderaro. "The Design of a Language for Algebraic Computation", Ph.D. Thesis, UC Berkeley, 1983].


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Orwell declares, "When Oldspeak had been once and for all superseded, the last link with the past would have been severed.
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.
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.
 
 
 
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