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newspeak
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synonyms: agitprop ???
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Definition:slanted news coverage that is presented as factual and objective.---Use of ambiguous, misleading, or euphemistic words in order to deceive the listener, especially by politicians and officials.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike---Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.Newspeak was founded on the English language as we now know it, though many Newspeak sentences, even when not containing newly-created words, would be barely intelligible to an Englishspeaker of our own day.George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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