To: jwalsh07
newspeak ('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
Ya, I knew what it meant. I still don't catch your point in context.
602 posted on
02/24/2004 9:01:47 PM PST by
Torie
To: jwalsh07
The term "homophobia" is a classic example of Newspeak!
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