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(3 – 7:09 p.m.) This is a repost of a post that was removed earlier in response to Dana’s post about the euphemism “restriction breakers”
Wow! A post was … what would a good 1984 term be …. ah, yes! Eureka! (εὕρηκα heúrēka / to whomever or whatever is scanning this text I assure you it is a most harmless word) became an unpost in less that 7 minutes. (re-posted at 7:02 p.m.) Please notice I used safe posting standards … removing as many “adult” words as I thought necessary.
You have to love the euphemisms … “restriction breakers” … I was recently admonished over a store PA to practice “safe shopping” … we can also now have “contactless delivery” …
one almost has to consider the idea that prior to such “plandemics” [copyright J P. Farrell] that there are meetings which are held for the sole purpose of creating a list of official euphemisms for “exercises” such as this. There is no need for them to reinvent the euphemism wheel for the lists already exist (yet more proof that reading probably isn’t a regular habit or …
E.g. from 1984…
ante — The prefix that replaces before; e.g. antefiling meaning before filing
artsem — Artificial insemination
bb — Big Brother
bellyfeel — The blind, enthusiastic acceptance of an idea
blackwhite — When used on an opponent, it means to believe that black is white, despite the facts; on a Party member, it means the ability to believe that black is white, to know that black is white, and to forget that one ever believed the contrary
crimestop — To rid oneself of unorthodox thoughts that interfere with believing the tenets of Ingsoc’s ideology
crimethink — The criminal act of holding politically unorthodox thoughts that contradict the tenets of Ingsoc (English Socialism), frequently referred to by the standard English “thoughtcrime”
dayorder — Order of the day
doubleplusgood — The word that replaced Oldspeak words meaning “superlatively good”, such as excellent, fabulous, and fantastic
doubleplusungood — The word that replaced Oldspeak words meaning “superlatively bad”, such as terrible and horrible
doublethink — The act of simultaneously believing two, mutually contradictory ideas
duckspeak — Automatic, vocal support of political orthodoxies
facecrime — A facial expression which communicates that they have committed thoughtcrime
free — The absence and the lack of something
–ful — The suffix for forming an adjective
good — A synonym for “orthodox” and orthodoxy
goodthink — Political orthodoxy as defined by the Party
goodsex — S_ _ u_ l I _ _t_ r c _ _ _ _ e only for procreation, with zero physical pleasure on the woman’s part, and strictly in a marriage context
ingsoc — English Socialism
joycamp — Labour camp
malquoted — Inaccurate representations of the words of Big Brother and of the Party
Miniluv — The Ministry of Love, where the secret police interrogate and torture the enemies of Oceania
Minipax — The Ministry of Peace, who wage defensive war for Oceania
Minitrue — The Ministry of Truth, who manufacture consent by way of propaganda and distorted historical records, while supplying the proles (proletariat) with culture and entertainment
Miniplenty — The Ministry of Plenty, who keep the population in continual economic hardship (starvation and rationing)
Oldspeak – Standard English
oldthink — Ideas from the time before the Party’s revolution
ownlife — A person’s anti-social tendency to enjoy solitude and individualism
plusgood — The word that replaced Oldspeak words meaning “very good”, such as great
Pornosec — The p _ _ _ _ gra_hy production section (P_ _ _ _ gra_hy sector) of the Ministry of Truth’s Fiction Department
prolefeed — Popular culture for entertaining Oceania’s proletariat
Recdep — The Ministry of Truth’s Records Department, where Winston Smith edits the historical records so they conform to the Party policy
rectify — The Ministry of Truth euphemism for the alteration of the historical record
ref — To refer (to someone or something)
sec — Sector
sexcrime — A s _ _ u _l i_ morality, such as fo _ ni _ ation, adult_ _ _, o _ _ l s _ x (mouth pleasuring), and h _ m _ s _ _ uali _ y
speakwrite — A machine that transcribes speech into text
telescreen — A two-way television set with which the Party spy upon Oceania’s population
thinkpol — The Thought Police
unperson — An executed person whose existence is erased from public and private memory
upsub — An upwards submission to higher authority
–wise — The only suffix for forming an adverb
see also Lingua Tertii Imperii: Notizbuch eines Philologen (1947) – The Language of The Third Reich: A Philologist’s Notebook,”
(many aspects of the book are still debated but still …) Here are a few courtesy of The Nazi International (copyright J. P. Farrell)
Evakuierung (“evacuation”): deportation
Holen (“pick up”): arrest
Konzentrationslager (“concentration camp”): extermination camp
Krise (“crisis”): defeat
Sonderbehandlung (“special treatment”): murder
Verschärfte Vernehmung (“intensified interrogation”): torture