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Comment by robocat

1 hour ago

  The term doublespeak derives from two concepts in 1984 ("doublethink" and "Newspeak") despite the term itself not being used in the novel. [edited]

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak

I just bought a cheap 1984 to masochistically read again.

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