• Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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      13 minutes ago

      Also, the word doublespeak isn’t from Orwell. In Nineteen Eighty-Four he used the term Newspeak, meaning a sort of clipped form of language designed to limit expression of thought, and doublethink, the practice of holding two contradictory thoughts at the same time and believing both to be true, but he never used the word doublespeak.

      Interestingly though, it actually predates Nineteen Eighty-Four, but nobody really knows who coined it exactly.