Newspeak - Conlang Profile

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Language Name	Newspeak
Language Author	George Orwell
Site	Newspeak
Broken Link	No
Site Language	English
Language Type	fictional language
Uniqueness	George Orwell in his famous book 1984.
Language Sources	The Nazis and the Stalinists were probably the inspiration for this type of totalitarian language dedicated to pervert the logical structures of natural languages.
Design Principles	Logical inversions and vacuum of concept that leads to vacuum of reality. The language is based around the destruction of words rather than their creation. It seeks to control philosophical outlooks by controlling the parameters through which they can (or in this case, cannot) function)
Dictionary	No
Etymologies	No
Grammar	No
Sample Texts	Yes
Unique Script	No
Primer	No
Babel Text	No
Submitted By	Henri Gérard Wajsbrot
Date Submitted	Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Date Edited	Monday, February 21, 2005
Date To Headline	Monday, March 07, 2005

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