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70The Doublespeak Campaign, The Doublespeak Award, The Orwell Award and the NCTE
I came across an interesting section in a big coffee table-sized book I have had for a while, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language. It's a cool book, crammed with all kinds of things about the...
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60Newspeak: a fictional language in George Orwell's novel 1984
Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel 1984. It has a reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suited the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim was to make any...
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64The Population Bomb (1968) predicted that "in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death"
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal." — Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '96...
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58How propaganda works: the ruse of Hegelian Dialectic
[Humoristic Book] Principia Discordia or the Hegelian Dialectic for the Masses "each crisis is 'an opportunity' to have develop out of this tragedy a new world order". -- George W. Bush invoked the new world...
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49Minimalist Languages
Minimalist languages do not occur naturally. They represent one type of constructed language and have the design goal of reducing the number of available words in the lexicon. A minimalist language can be...
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59Propaganda techniques
Propagandists use a variety of propaganda techniques to influence opinions and to avoid the truth. Often these techniques rely on either omitting significant information or distorting it. During the period...
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