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Newspeak rant (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Anyone who's studied the George Orwell novel 1984 want to explain to me what the fucking point of "newspeak" is and why it's not a strawman "we're gonna make the commies seem like supervillains and do random stupid shit for no reason" type trope? Because when has any prominent figure in socialism or communism ever suggested dumbing down language? Give me an example of a commie language reinvention please, 1984 is supposed to be the definitive manual on what happened under communism isn't it?

Also detecting a hint of racism in that plotpoint because there really are real languages that evolved naturally where the positive and negative expressions are indeed structured as good, not good, very good, very not good, etc. Is it trying to say that people speaking those languages are bad at expressing their thoughts because it's not how English does it?

Actually, Chinese is kind of like this with its use of pre/suffixes. Chinese is also one of the best languages for poetry and literature. Source: Native Mandarin speaker.

Crossposted from my Mastodon

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As always, it is projection. Newspeak absolutely do exist but you can see it half of the day in commercials in TV and such.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they still trying to make "alternative facts" happen?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Basically entire western media now is alternative facts. In some cases like Ukraine War or US economy just mere alternative facts would be improvement over their current density of copium and outright lies.