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To: ArrogantBustard

The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc [English Socialism], but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten , a heretical thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of IngSoc — should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. - George Orwell, afterword to the 1949 edition


8 posted on 05/14/2010 11:40:16 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: Jim Noble

Yep. Modern “political correctness” and hate-speech laws closely mirror Orwell’s Newspeak.


14 posted on 05/14/2010 11:45:59 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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