by PDad » Fri Jul 31, 2015 12:28 pm
Orwell predicted this with Newspeak in his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Some examples chosen from Wikipedia...
- Crimestop: To rid oneself of unwanted thoughts—i.e., thoughts that interfere with Party ideology—in order to avoid committing thoughtcrime.
- Equal: Only used to describe physical equality such as height and weight. It does not refer to social, political or economical equality because there is no such concept as social inequality in purportedly egalitarian Ingsoc
- Facecrime: An indication that a person is guilty of thoughtcrime based on facial expression.
- Free: Meaning negative freedom (without), in a physical sense. Only used in statements such as "This dog is free from lice", as the concepts of "political freedom" and "intellectual freedom" do not exist in Newspeak.
- Goodthink: Orthodox thought.
- Ingsoc: English Socialism.
- Joycamp: Forced labor camp.
- Malquoted: Flawed representations of the Party or Big Brother by the press.
- Miniluv: "Ministry of Love" (secret police, interrogation, and torture).
- Minipax: "Ministry of Peace" (Ministry of War, cf.: "Department of Defense", "War Department").
- Minitrue: "Ministry of Truth" (propaganda and alteration of history, culture, and entertainment).
- Miniplenty: "Ministry of Plenty" (keeping the population in a state of constant economic hardship).
- Oldspeak: English; any language that is not Newspeak.
- Oldthink: Ideas inspired by events or memories of times prior to the Revolution.
- Prolefeed: The steady stream of mindless entertainment produced to distract and occupy the masses. The prole in prolefeed is reference to the Marxist concept of the proletariat.
- Recdep: "Records Department" (division of the Ministry of Truth that deals with the rectification of records; department in which Winston works).
- Rectify: Ministry of Truth euphemism for deliberately altering the past.
- Speakwrite: An instrument used by Party members to note or "write" down information by speaking into an apparatus as a faster alternative to an "ink pencil". Speakwrites are used extensively in the Ministry of Truth by both Winston Smith and others in their daily work.
- Telescreen: Television and security camera devices used by the ruling Party in Oceania to keep its subjects under constant surveillance.
- Thinkpol: Thought Police.