Talk:Newspeak
If, in China, unauthorized publishing of dictionaries is prohibited, there is, or should, be people who make their own dictionaries and distribute them electronically or something. Or non-Chinese should make a Chinese dictionary.
- Can we get some examples of just HOW Chinese words have been redefined? -- Zoe
- In mainland Chinese, over the past century many words have been redefined or co-opted in government media, and unauthorised publishing of dictionaries (see: dictionary) is prohibited.
I removed this. First of all, although the Chinese government does engage in doublespeak it's really hard to argue that it does this more than any other government. Second, the sentence about the unauthorised publishing of dictionaries is false as a trip any Shanghai bookstore can demonstrate. -- User:Roadrunner
The last few paragraphs should be moved to an article on Political correctness in general. I agree that "differently abled" is annoying, but that is a POV. (stand-up comedians have had a field day on it -- "dead" is now "differently alive", etc) It's wrong to state that "different" implies "different but equal". "differently able" can mean "less able": the point is that is doesn't automatically mean that. -- Tarquin
Aren't "politically correct" terms an example of newspeak? For example, having to say "terminally inconvenienced" for "dead"? -- Gregory Pietsch
I wonder how Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch would be like in newspeak..."this parrot is dead! and it's dead! dead! more dead!" :) -- Dreamyshade
Given the controvery over the term "anti-Semitism" (especially as it has been used by non-semites to mean anti-arab which makes the arguement fall apart) maybe we should switch to a less controversial example. Possibly the word fundamentalism ? --Imran 00:17 Nov 28, 2002 (UTC)