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Title: Rumsfeld busted using newspeak: His Immediate Threat blunder View count: 2473 Rating: 5.0 (27 ratings) Description: from dictionary.com: Newspeak is an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, esp. in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to "increased taxation" as "revenue enhancement." from wikipedia: Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it is described as being "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year." 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 a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking ("thoughtcrime") or speech impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on. One character says admiringly of the shrinking volume of the new dictionary: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." Tags: donald, rumsfeld, george, bush, iraq, war, orwell, orwellian, nightmare, newspeak, doublespeak, propaganda, pyop, infowars, alex, jones, Author: RonPaulvsTyranny |
