Newspeak
pronunciation
How to pronounce Newspeak in British English:
UK [ˈnjuːspiːk]
How to pronounce Newspeak in American English:
US [ ˈnuːspiːk]
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- Noun:
- deliberately ambiguous and contradictiory language use to mislead and manipulate the public
Word Origin
- Newspeak (n.)
- name of the artificial language of official communication in George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," 1949, from new (adj.) + speak (n.). Frequently applied to what is perceived as propagandistic warped English.
Example
- 1. Syme was a philologist , a specialist in newspeak .
- 2. How 's the newspeak committee ?
- 3. In the programming language design community , small as it is , newspeak is provocative .
- 4. Except that english is its chief lingua franca and newspeak its official language , it is not centralized in any way .
- 5. In newspeak it is called doublethink , though doublethink comprises much else as well .