Thursday, January 4, 2018

Nospeak

“We’re destroying words – scores of them, hundreds of them, every day.… The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. In the end we shall make thoughtcrime [having unorthodox thoughts] literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
    -- Syme, 1984

“the ultimate aim of Newspeak is to enclose people in an orthodox pseudo-reality and isolate them from the real world.”
    -- Jem Berkes

“President Trump has made 1,318 false or misleading claims over [his first] 263 days [in office]. Many of these claims are repeated over and over again – significantly more than three times."
   -- Washington Post’s Fact Check project

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