newspeak
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Some of what got later cited as examples of PC newspeak originated, in fact, as parodies of supposed PC newspeak.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025
“Food processor” sounds like newspeak concocted by a sinister culinary regime to reassure the international community.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2022
From Orwell’s evocation of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, new words entered the language: doublethink, thoughtcrime, newspeak and Big Brother.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2019
The problem in deciding what Orwell would write about in 2013 is that Orwell the man was incessantly, in 21st century newspeak, off-message.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2013
A topsy-turvy continent adrift among the gales of newspeak, under the gaze of a million grey bureaucrats passing for big brothers.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
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