• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    That was the end goal of Newspeak, but it hadn’t been achieved. It was a slow process.

    You could argue this is what they’re doing, training people to talk in a sterilised way. That it would become so normalised that anybody trying to speak normally would be dismissed as cringey or whatever. All to the benefit of advertisers.

    Maybe that’s a huge leap, but I think that was the gist of what they meant.

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      10 months ago

      avoiding certain words does not create newspeak, but rather the inability to use a limited set of words outside a given context, circumventing speech restrictions is arguably the least newspeak thing possible, as it basically makes any attempt at new speak impossible.