Newspeak

newspeak English + (programming language) Etymology en Orwell :af new speak<id:make sound> 1 1 1, en George Orwell 1949 1 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. Proper noun en fictional language en fiction 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. en Richard Weintraub Trump's use of 'Newspeak' to explain away virus puts Americans at risk &vert; For What It's Worth w:Pocono Record https://www.poconorecord.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/11/19/trumps-use-newspeak-explain-away-virus-puts-americans-risk-what-its-worth/3775331001/ 2020-11-19 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260712224510/https://www.poconorecord.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/11/19/trumps-use-newspeak-explain-away-virus-puts-americans-risk-what-its-worth/3775331001/ 12 July 2026 en Peter Foster Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050 w:Financial Post https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-sustainable-newspeak-by-2050 2021-01-05 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20210331064742/https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-sustainable-newspeak-by-2050 en programming language en programming language A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming. en 2010 Debasish Ghosh DSLs in Action Simon and Schuster 9781638351177 Many modern languages like Haskell, Scala, and Newspeak offer parser combinators as libraries on top of the core language. Derived terms en fanspeak newspeak Descendants ca novaparla 1 Translations fictional language Albanian: sq gjuha e re f Armenian: hy նորալեզու Belarusian: be навамо́ўе n Bulgarian: bg новго́вор m Catalan: ca novaparla f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 新語 xīnyǔ, cmn 新話 xīnhuà Czech: cs newspeak m Danish: da nysprog n Dutch: nl Newspeak Esperanto: eo novparolo Estonian: et uuskeel Finnish: fi uuskieli French: fr novlangue f Georgian: ka ახალმეტყველება German: de Neusprech n, de Neusprache f older translation Hebrew: he שִׂיחָדָשׁ m siaḥadásh Hungarian: hu újbeszél Icelandic: is nýlenska Italian: it neolingua Japanese: ja ニュースピーク nyūsupīku, ja 新語 しんご, shingo Korean: ko 신어(新語), ko 뉴스피크 Lithuanian: lt naujakalbė f Macedonian: mk нового́вор m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb nytale m Polish: pl nowomowa f Portuguese: pt novilíngua f, pt novafala f, pt novidioma m Romanian: ro novlimbă f Russian: ru новоя́з m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh новоговор m Latin: sh novogovor m Slovene: sl novorek m Spanish: es neolengua f Swedish: sv nyspråk n Ukrainian: uk новомо́ва f Welsh: cy Newyddiaith f Noun - s en newspeak. en Ur-Fascism w:Umberto Eco 1995-06-22 The New York Review of Books https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/ 2017-01-31 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. en Richard Weintraub Trump's use of 'Newspeak' to explain away virus puts Americans at risk &vert; For What It's Worth w:Pocono Record https://www.poconorecord.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/11/19/trumps-use-newspeak-explain-away-virus-puts-americans-risk-what-its-worth/3775331001/ 2020-11-19 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260712224510/https://www.poconorecord.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/11/19/trumps-use-newspeak-explain-away-virus-puts-americans-risk-what-its-worth/3775331001/ 12 July 2026 Translations newspeak See also en political correctness spin en terms derived from Nineteen Eighty-Four terms suffixed with -speak en Artificial languages Languages