DeDanaan

Filed by Aine MacDermot

Newspeak : Newspeak is the official language of Oceania in the novel 1984 by George Orwell. The purposes and principles are described in great detail in an appendix to the book. Its creators invented new words, and also threw out many old words that the dictatorship thought were undesirable. An example of Newspeak is “Reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling.” Translated into ordinary English, this would read “The reporting of Big Brother’s Order for the Day. . . is extremely unsatisfactory and makes references to nonexistent persons. Rewrite it in full and submit your draft to higher authority before filing.”