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The dickhead conservatives who've adopted Orwell love to say "Newspeak" to mean any jargon they don't like or understand, especially "PC jargon" But Newspeak is the OPPOSITE of that Newspeak is about only using simple words that everyone knows whose intended meaning is obvious
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It's designed to make you talk like a little kid "Good" and "ungood" are the only words you can use to judge something All verbs have only one tense ("think" and not "thought") Language is supposed to become easy and automatic, there are no double meanings "Duckspeaking"
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“What games can I play to make 2+2=5 if I want it to.” Easily becomes “How can I train my mind to accept anything anyone says is truth when it is convenient for me.” So now all I have to do is force you into a position where saying what I want is convenient for you.
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Lol and you think your personal inflexibility and incapacity for abstraction - your dumbness, to put it bluntly - immunizes you from this You think that's the same thing as moral courage, that the way you are is because you just love truth too much
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Phrasing it as language games made this click for me. Because yeah, "2 grams" is just words. The easiest definition is "precisely twice the quantity of one gram" but it's not hard to see how that meaning extends into "as far as our instruments can tell, twice the quantity".
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Words in the sort of linguistic sense of "a string of graphemes assembled into a meaningful phrase", not as in "a series of letters separated by spaces". Though tbh any definition of "word" will always be fuzzy and incomplete.
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