how often do you encounter doublespeak?
Perhaps this is a cultural thing, but doublespeak seems to be prevalent even in casual conversation
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Perhaps this is a cultural thing, but doublespeak seems to be prevalent even in casual conversation
Yeah, any example will do.
That was more for you to provide an example so we know exactly what you are looking for?
Whether intentional or not their reply was hilarious.
And OP just read 1984.
/post [mic drop]
Its going to get funnier the longer he avoids answering lol. In my mind, he could be referring to anything from double speak (doublethink), double entendres, puns, double meanings, etc. He needs to show some of his thinking so we can answer intelligently
1984 was doublethink, not doublespeak
"War is Peace" is doublespeak; an inherent contradiction. Anybody can say it and still see the contradiction and believe that it isn't true. Doublethink is the internalization of that doublespeak. A Party member says it and sees no contradiction. Deep in their hearts, they understand that to be in a never ending war is to experience neverending peace.
All that to say that doublespeak was certainly a thing in the novel, as it labours on the distinction between doublespeak and doublethink.
Maybe OP didn’t just read it then. Maybe, like me, they read it years ago and misremembered