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Newspeak is the fictional language in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell. It is a controlled language created by the totalitarian state Oceania as a tool to limit freedom of thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression, individuality, and peace. Any form of thought alternative to the party’s construct is classified as "thoughtcrime".
Newspeak is explained in chapters 4 and 5 of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and in an appendix to the book. The language follows, for the most part, the same grammatical rules as English, but has a much more limiting, and constantly shifting vocabulary. Any synonyms or antonyms, along with undesirable concepts are eradicated. The goal is for everyone except the Proles — the working-class citizens of Oceania — to be speaking this language by the year 2050. In the meantime, Oldspeak (current English) is still in common usage with Newspeak interspersed into conversation.
Orwell was inspired to invent Newspeak by the constructed language Basic English, which he promoted from 1942 to 1944 before emphatically rejecting it in his essay "Politics and the English Language." In this paper he deplores the bad English of his day, citing dying metaphors, pretentious diction or rhetoric, and meaningless words, which he saw as encouraging unclear thought and reasoning. Towards the end of the essay, Orwell states: “I said earlier that the decadence of our language is probably curable. Those who deny this would argue, if they produced an argument at all, that language merely reflects existing social conditions, and that we cannot influence its development by any direct tinkering with words or constructions."
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language, and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian—descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices—has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including, but not limited to, cold war, Big Brother, Thought Police, Room 101, memory hole, newspeak, doublethink, and thoughtcrime.
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words..."
How many fingers?
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The political forum is often the place where new words and phrases are invented to soften the hard truth. But as RT's Marina Portnaya asks, can the new vocabulary really distract public attention away from urgent issues? RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
In George Orwell's novel, a totalitarian society manipulates its citizens using 'Newspeak'. By controlling how society speaks, the government attempt to control how people can think and express themselves. Learn more about 1984 and over 100 other highlights of world literature in The Literature Book. Buy your copy here: UK: http://www.dk.com/uk/9780241015469-the-literature-book/ US: http://www.dk.com/us/9781465429889-the-literature-book/
John Hurt and Gregor Fisher at Nineteen Eighty-Four (based upon George Orwell's novel) Directed by Michael Radford http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(film)
My initial explanation of how some of the propaganda and rhetoric techniques from 1984, specifically newspeak, doublethink, and thoughtcrime, are used in modern settings to achieve some of the aims of Ingsoc in the book. Find me outside of youtube: Read my books- http://dvspress.com For more music stuff - http://davidvstewart.com http://www.facebook.com/davidvandykestewart plus.google.com/+davidstewartwriter http://davidvandykestewart.blogspot.com twitch.tv/davidvstewart stu@davidvstewart.com
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Beginning a series on the parallels that can be drawn between George Orwell's fictional novel "1984", and modern day, real life scenarios.
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ThoughtCrime and NewSpeak
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The "WHAT Amber Alert Shutdown?" NewSpeak Cafe
Stream of Papers, Please. -- Watch live at http://www.twitch.tv/newspeaker
Inaugural podcast, I talk about the fourth dimension, Newspeak, profanity, The Ten Commandments and euthanasia.
Talk was recorded on Prague Lambda Meetup in Locus Workspace, July 8th 2015 Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/Lambda-Meetup-Group/ Bio Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language, a software engineer at Google and a member of the Dart (programming language) team in Aarhus. He is a co-author of the second and third editions of the Java Language Specification, and a major contributor to the second edition of the Java Virtual Machine Specification. [source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Bracha] What is Newspeak? Newspeak is a new programming language in the tradition of Self and Smalltalk. Newspeak is highly dynamic and reflective - but designed to support modularity and security. It supports both object-oriented and functional programming. Like Self, News...
Talk was recorded on Prague Lambda Meetup in Locus Workspace, July 8th 2015 Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/Lambda-Meetup-Group/ Bio Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language, a software engineer at Google and a member of the Dart (programming language) team in Aarhus. He is a co-author of the second and third editions of the Java Language Specification, and a major contributor to the second edition of the Java Virtual Machine Specification. [source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Bracha] What is Newspeak? Newspeak is a new programming language in the tradition of Self and Smalltalk. Newspeak is highly dynamic and reflective - but designed to support modularity and security. It supports both object-oriented and functional programming. Like Self, News...
They will grab you with their open hands,
Reaching for a chance to expand their lies,
Keep your head down,
Mind yourself,
Make sure that you keep all your thoughts inside.
They speak their truth out telling lies,
Forcing us all down until we see their ways,
The sations on, let's prepare to operate,
Let's watch the world go up in flames.
Turn on ...Burn out.
Turned on ... Burned out.
Here they come,
They're rushing in now,
Here to save the day.
I gave them my precise location.
I hope they're on the way.
They will grab you with their open hands,
Reaching for a chance to expand their lies,
Keep your head down,
Mind yourself,
Make sure that you keep all your thoughts inside,
They speak their truth out telling lies,
Forcing us all down until we see their ways,
The sations on, let's prepare to operate,
Let's watch the world go up in flames.
Turn on ...Burn out.
Turned on ... Burned out.
Here they come,
They're rushing in now,
Here to save the day.
I gave them my precise location.
I hope they're on the way.