“ The name of every organization, or body of people, or doctrine, or country, or institution, or public building, was invariably cut down into the familiar shape; that is, a single, easily pronounced word with the smallest number of syllables that would preserve the original derivation… This was not done solely with the object of saving time. Even in the early decades of the twentieth century, telescoped words and phrases had been one of the characteristic features of political language; and it had been noticed that the tendency to use abbreviations of this kind was most marked in totalitarian countries and totalitarian organizations. Examples were such words as Nazi, Gestapo, Comintern, Imprecorr, Agitprop. In the beginning the practice had been adopted as it were instinctively, but in Newspeak it was used with a conscious purpose. It was perceived that in thus abbreviating a name one narrowed and subtly altered its meaning, by cutting out most associations that would otherwise cling to it.
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FOR MY HONOURS YEAR PROJECT I AM LOOKING AT THE PERVASIVENESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN OUR SOCIETY & EXCESS OF THE IRRELEVANT. UPDATE: UM, YEAH, IT'S MOSTLY JUST ABOUT CATS NOW. & LOLZ.
YOU CAN SEE MY NON-HONOURS SPECIFIC WORK AT WWW.RAMONAHAMILTONLINDSAY.TUMBLR.COM
YOU CAN SEE MY NON-HONOURS SPECIFIC WORK AT WWW.RAMONAHAMILTONLINDSAY.TUMBLR.COM
September 9, 2009
