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Newspeak --- pedophile

Posted by Schwarzken on 2008-July-22 14:53:05 EDT, Tuesday

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Newspeak* is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it is described as being "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year." Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an appendix in which the basic principles of the language are explained. Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking – "thoughtcrime", or "crimethink" in the newest edition of Newspeak – or speech impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on. One character says admiringly of the shrinking volume of the new dictionary: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

A definition of...

- Pedophile** : Staggering word; character who serves as pretext periodically to strengthen the police control of the usage of Internet (« a network pedophile ring dismantled »).

 
 
 


* - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
** - http://fr.novopress.info/?p=12200


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