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reply posted on 26-6-2006 @ 10:57 PM by ShreddedIce

2. Isn't newspeak supposed to be a sort of double-speak? Like "war is peace, hate is love', etc?


That's a concept that's probably more related to doublethink, which is the practice of holding to conflicting ideas (e.g. love is hate, war is peach) at the same time.
Newspeak is the language invented by the Party in 1984 to control thought by eliminating as many words as possible from the English language (Oldspeak); therefore reducing all thought to absolutes like good and bad, right and wrong, etc. This is presented as a way to control thought, by stating that the Party is "good," and the current enemy of the Party is "bad" with no neutral organizations: in other words, "if you're not with us, you're against us."

You are correct, however, in your statement that the OP's example is not a manifestation of Newspeak. I personally don't see any difference between that and, say, radar or scuba (both acronyms that were over time turned into words).

EDIT: blargh, it keeps adding an extra line in the middle of the paragraph, sorry about that.

[edit on 6/26/06 by ShreddedIce]

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