How To Use Newspeak In A Sentence
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His mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word doublethink.
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SCTV once did a brilliant episode set on New Year's Eve 1983 in which, as soon as the countdown hit zero, all programming became Orwellian, straight out of Nineteen Eighty-Four, with abundant newspeak and a still photo of Orson Welles as the face of Big Brother, glaring sternly from your "telescreen".
Eric Williams: Right Like Me
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In the same way nobody who reads a press-release accepts the face value, so can the Chinese learn how to use newspeak to get their message across.
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We have 1984 today; even if not in the form described by Orwell; since newspeak is replaced by the patois of the gang leaders and international body smugglers.
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Now that you are free of newspeak, scotoma, and see clearly, you can grasp the probable results from ObamaCare, from adding a Government Insurance option to the mind-numbing morass of insurance choices and limitless paperwork.
» Heinlein on national health care: TANSTAAFL heinleinblog
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And some American journalists have begun to make that newspeak their own, among them CNN's senior international correspondent Robertson.
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the welfare state brought its own newspeak
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In other words, according to Lehman's newspeak dialectic, an honest history has to be prepared to be dishonest about what actually happened.
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This is a fine example of Orwellian newspeak, suggesting that openness can best be achieved by secrecy and non-disclosure.
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We cannot, like 1984's famous newspeak, just blot out the ideas that we do not like.
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With a bit of Orwellian newspeak, the scientists described the entities as ‘nuclear transfer constructs’ rather than early embryos, and avoided the language of ‘cloning’ altogether.
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In this age of ‘Political Correctness’, his Newspeak is a warning to us all about what can happen when tyrants gain control of semantics, history and media.
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He is the master of wedge politics, of the wolf whistle and of spin or doubletalk or should we call it ‘Newspeak’.
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Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak.
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Carlin ridiculed our watering-down of sexual descriptions and ethnic categories, not to mention our mourning clichés, all of which he believed were the real-life manifestations of George Orwell’s “Newspeak,” utilized to obscure reality, numb the mind, and discourage criticism.
Marty Beckerman On George Carlin | Disinformation
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The grand media outlets are so entangled in the current newspeak that they rarely seem capable of presenting any fundamental challenge to the White House.
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As much as newspeak was a signature of the Kremlin, it is an equally apt description of today's White House.
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But you can't call it "Orwellian," because that means Big Brother, Newspeak, the Gestapo, the K.G.B., the Stasi, and any other totalitarian obscenity that has ever reared its head or ever will.
The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)
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Should this nomenclature be considered a better example of newspeak or doublethink?
Globe and Mail
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Nonetheless, this is one situation that precisely fits what Orwell was thinking of when he coined the idea ‘Newspeak’, as Jonas notes on his blog.
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I instantly thought of the Orwellian newspeak at my own Manhattan school where achievement tests were the order of the day.
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This is a fine example of Orwellian newspeak, suggesting that openness can best be achieved by secrecy and non-disclosure.
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It's much easier to stick with comfortable newspeak about ‘a lengthy air campaign led by B - 2 bombers armed with 2,000-pound satellite-guided bombs.’
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Studying that article, Joanna realized that one of the standard newspeak phrases was missing from the references to Melanie Goodson.
DEVIL'S CLAW
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Sometimes ‘nonlinear thinking’ is just newspeak for mental incoherence.
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At the same time, it has turned true English into newspeak.
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(How many people actually read the PATRIOT Act. Talk about newspeak and double-think.)
Mjh's blog — 2009 — August
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We have 1984 today; even if not in the form described by Orwell; since newspeak is replaced by the patois of the gang leaders and international body smugglers.
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That's the kind of newspeak that presents itself as journalism while detouring around truth.
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This is, of course, the kind of twisting of terminology that turns the meaning of a concept into its precise opposite - thereby nullifying its meaning and reality - that is the essence of Newspeak.
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Debate is not about a bunch of catty, uninformative, "Fox-News"-like blabber about occasional spelling mistakes, errors in academic trivia and how their knowledge in NewSpeak do's-and-don'ts (e.g. don't use "hypothesize" for anyone other than the originator of an idea no matter how far buried in the recesses of time, apparently) empowers them with a metaphysical prescience to evaluate in some small way who is 'serious' in an academic field in absence of mindful studiousness and profound contemplation of the (un)read material.
Archive 2008-02-01
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It's spin, it's all newspeak, it's double thinking, it's analysts talking about Telstra.
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What did the politically correct call it now in this age of touchy-feely newspeak ?
CORMORANT
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Sure, we need everything Brown wants, but I don't know how we can get there in a system so adept at hiding the real costs and spewing Orwellian newspeak whenever a voice of reason speaks out.
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His writings on language, particularly his universally acknowledged concept of ‘Newspeak’, are formidable weapons in our armoury against ruling class spin doctors.
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This is a fine example of Orwellian newspeak, suggesting that openness can best be achieved by secrecy and non-disclosure.
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Randy has gotten full blown Orwellian newspeaked, he thinks privatization [subsidizing] is efficient yet wails against it because its nationalizing health care!!
Think Progress » Passing Health Reform Would Contribute To Obama’s Deficit Reduction Goals
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When I first heard Pentagon newspeak refer to assassination as ‘decapitation,’ I naturally thought of Charles I and Louis XVI.
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They engage in groupthink and newspeak and you can spend a lifetime shaking them off.
Think Progress » Mark Krikorian: ‘Haiti’s So Screwed Up Because It Wasn’t Colonized Long Enough’
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Expect lots more of this newspeak and doublethink from the Moulton-Kenney Ministry of Love.
Shaun Kenney Bombs?
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Unfortunately, these soundbites are often peppered with newspeak - words which are designed to lead you down a particular path with no way to voice dissent in any meaningful way.
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The banality of political correctness, the attenuation of meaning in the argot of legalese/computere/governmentese newspeak attenuates all feeling and meaning.
One Book, One Tweet « Third Point of Singularity
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It requires standardized procedures and coded phrases for its operation, and regards the acceptance of such procedures and newspeak as the precondition for its functioning, not the outcome of debate.
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So looking at the theory, the Third Way seems to be nothing more than neo-liberalism cloaked in Orwellian newspeak.
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If George Orwell was writing today, he wouldn't need to invent newspeak.
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Or maybe mumbling is the new NewSpeak: we’ll just be inarticulate on the record, and then fix the record after the fact.
Think Progress » That’s Not Accurate: White House Alters Transcript of Press Briefing