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New·speak

/ˈno͞oˌspēk/

noun
- 1. ambiguous euphemistic language used chiefly in political propaganda: "“deterrence” is just Newspeak for plain old threatening"
Word Origin 1949: the name of an artificial official language in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Fictional language in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit a person's ability for critical thinking. Wikipedia
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