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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Newspeak en · NOUN
Etymology
From new + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The programming language was so named because of its “shrinkable” design, following Orwell's idea of a continually diminishing vocabulary in Newspeak.
Meanings
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(alt-of, uncountable, usually) Alternative letter-case form of newspeak.
In 2020, Trump has provided the American people with plenty of Newspeak to explain away the current and growing nationwide spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
2020 November 19, Richard Weintraub, “Trump's use of 'Newspeak' to explain away virus puts Americans at risk | For What It's Worth”, in Pocono Record:All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show.
1995 June 22, Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”, in The New York Review of Books, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2017:
Forms
Relateds
political correctness · spin
wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Newspeak en · PROPN
Etymology
From new + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The programming language was so named because of its “shrinkable” design, following Orwell's idea of a continually diminishing vocabulary in Newspeak.
Meanings
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The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.
2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2021:In Orwell’s 1984, the use of ambiguous and confusing language with restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, known as Newspeak, diminishes the range of a person’s thought process. For example, in Newspeak, the term “Fake News” would replace the words: accurate, correct, factual and reliable news reporting.
2020 November 19, Richard Weintraub, “Trump's use of 'Newspeak' to explain away virus puts Americans at risk | For What It's Worth”, in Pocono Record, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2026:
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A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.
Many modern languages like Haskell, Scala, and Newspeak offer parser combinators as libraries on top of the core language.
2010, Debasish Ghosh, DSLs in Action, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
Deriveds
newspeak · fanspeak
Descendants
novaparla
Translations (40)
hy նորալեզու (fictional language) · is nýlenska (fictional language) · ca novaparla (fictional language) · nb nytale (fictional language) · sl novorek (fictional language) · cmn 新語 /新语 (fictional language) · lt naujakalbė (fictional language) · fr novlangue (fictional language) · be навамо́ўе (fictional language) · ja ニュースピーク (fictional language) · pt novafala (fictional language) · sv nyspråk (fictional language) · sq gjuha e re (fictional language) · pt novidioma (fictional language) · cs newspeak (fictional language) · de Neusprech (fictional language) · ja 新語 (fictional language) · sh novogovor (fictional language) · cy Newyddiaith (fictional language) · pl nowomowa (fictional language) · nl Newspeak (fictional language) · ru новоя́з (fictional language) · pt novilíngua (fictional language) · sh новоговор (fictional language) · ko 뉴스피크 (fictional language) · eo novparolo (fictional language) · ro novlimbă (fictional language) · es neolengua (fictional language) · uk новомо́ва (fictional language) · da nysprog (fictional language) · fi uuskieli (fictional language) · et uuskeel (fictional language) · he שִׂיחָדָשׁ (fictional language) · bg новго́вор (fictional language) · it neolingua (fictional language) · ka ახალმეტყველება (fictional language) · hu újbeszél (fictional language) · ko 신어 (fictional language) · mk нового́вор (fictional language) · cmn 新話 /新话 (fictional language)
wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four