To: Torie
I think you're off target on Orwell. He even coined a new term for it, newspeak. I think it is apt.
To: jwalsh07
new•speak ('nü-"spEk, 'nyü-), noun, Usage: often capitalized. : propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings. Etymology: Newspeak, a language "designed to diminish the range of thought," in the novel 1984 (1949) by George Orwell. Date: 1950
To: jwalsh07
Elaborate if you care to. I am not sure that I catch your point.
601 posted on
02/24/2004 8:59:57 PM PST by
Torie
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