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Mar. 09, 2017
newspeak\NOO-speek, NYOO-\noun
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style
of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially
in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to
be objective, as in referring to increased taxation as revenue
enhancement.
QuotesA fellow Guardian writer remarked on immigration minister Peter
Dutton speaking on ABC Radio National this week, in which he described
people in a Nauru camp as transferees (a name implying motion) for
people indefinitely stuck in a camp. It isNewspeak of the highest
order, he said.
-- Brigid Delaney, "Orwell's nightmare vision of 1984 is always right
here, right now," The Guardian, October 22, 2015
Origin of newspeakNewspeak was coined by George Orwell in his novel
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