Subscribe to the podcast: https://pod.link/173429229 George Orwell is famous for the way he used language. In his novel 1984, he invented a language called newspeak, and in newspeak, undesirable or bad words were replaced with supposedly positive, good words so "bad" became "ungood." The idea in the book was that if people couldn't think bad things, then they couldn't dissent. The novel also introduced the terms "big brother," "thought police," and "doublethink." | Grammar Girl

1984 George Orwell / Newspeak: "If thought corrupts language, language corrupts thought" (and #PAWGset)

George Orwell Explains How “Newspeak” Works, the Official Language of His Totalitarian Dystopia in 1984