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ecrivaine33 commented on the word [doublespeak]
The word "doublespeak" is often incorrectly attributed to Orwell. It was actually coined in the early 1950s, and never actually appears in Nineteen Eighty-Four, but its meaning forms a natural parallel to the Newspeak word doublethink.
December 13, 2006