In Orwell's own words, newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought.
用奥威尔自己的话说,设计新语并不是为了拓展词汇,而是为了缩小思想的范围。
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In Orwell's dystopic novel " Nineteen Eighty-Four" , words like doublethink, thoughtcrime, newspeak and blackwhite give a nightmarish vision of where he saw the language going.
Newspeak is the fictional language in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell. It is a controlled language created by the totalitarian state Oceania as a tool to limit freedom of thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression, individuality, and peace. Any form of thought alternative to the party’s construct is classified as "thoughtcrime".