According to Clegg, the Government is rethinking domestic violence to mean “suffering at the hands of people who are meant to care for you”. But that is not domestic violence. It is something else. I can’t see any good coming from this Orwellian overhaul of the meaning of the words “domestic” and “violence” and of […]

I and so many others have struggled to understand why we need a world “war machine” in society today and finally, Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s titular leader, has provided the enlightenment: NATO is a “peace movement”! I now understand that the NATO dropping of the most bombs since WWII on Yugoslavia in the early ’90s was […]

 Words created to define new political concepts, or to protect a political ideology. These words are used to make an idea more acceptable. Some word’s apparent meaning is opposite from their actual meaning. (comparable to words such as Ministry of Truth, Goodsex, and Joycamp in Orwell’s version of Newspeak). via New Words.

Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it refers to the deliberately impoverished language promoted by the state. Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an appendix[1] in which the basic principles of the language are explained. Newspeak is closely based on English but has […]

In George Orwell’s 1984, standard English is referred to as Oldspeak. Newspeak, however, is the language ideal, which (the governing party of Ingsoc-English Socialism-hopes) will eventually replace Oldspeak completely . . . and with it, the free-thinking ideas humans used to enjoy. With Newspeak, speech would become terse and only demonstrate the ideals of Ingsoc. […]

In George Orwell’s chilling novel “1984,” Newspeak is a method of controlling the people’s language in order to keep them under Big Brother’s heavy hand. It is a devious, diabolical system using brainwashing and mind-control to allow only certain “approved” words and ideas to be used. We have the same thing in our society today. […]

As Verizon gets set to release the iPhone 4, it looks like its marketing and network management departments are honing their reworked Orwellian vocabularies, reminding us that in wireless network newspeak we need to forget words like “throttling” or “arbitrary broadband discrimination,” and replace them instead with new redefined terms like “VZOptimization.” Lest we commit […]

The Neo-Aristocrats never say what they are really thinking, so they engage in sub communication. If you have the wherewithal to decode their speech patterns you can better understand their demented and twisted rational. I will provide you with examples, explanations and direct quotes. Biodiversity – The Eco-Dictator’s trump card. It is more important that […]

This is plausible: When the very first text message was sent in 1992, no one realized the influence it would have in the worlds of business, education, security, crime and our social lives.  But within a decade of its inception, the world grasped hold of it and ran with it like an Olympian. Text messages were […]

Warspeak: Linguistic Collateral Damage Any war is a war on words as well as on people. No one is proud of the effects of war however proud we might be of the intentions of our fighting forces. Whenever war breaks out, we begin to hear the words “newspeak,” “doublespeak,” “doublethink.” In George Orwell’s 1984, newspeak […]