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Newspeak

name
/ˈn(j)uːspiːk/

Etymology

From new + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The programming language was so named because of its “shrinkable” design, following Orwell's idea of a continually diminishing vocabulary in Newspeak.

  1. inherited from *bʰeh₂g-✻ — “to distribute”
  2. inherited from *spekan✻
  3. derived from *spreg-✻ — “to make a sound, utter, speak”
  4. inherited from *sprekaną✻ — “to speak, make a sound”
  5. inherited from *sprekan✻
  6. inherited from specan — “to speak”
  7. inherited from speke
  8. compounded as newspeak — “new + speak”

Definitions

  1. The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the…

    The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

  2. A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting…

    A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.

    • Many modern languages like Haskell, Scala, and Newspeak offer parser combinators as libraries on top of the core language.

  3. Alternative letter-case form of newspeak.

    • In 2020, Trump has provided the American people with plenty of Newspeak to explain away the current and growing nationwide spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Use of ambiguous, misleading, or euphemistic words in order to deceive the listener,…

      Use of ambiguous, misleading, or euphemistic words in order to deceive the listener, especially by politicians and officials.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Newspeak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA