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Latest revision as of 07:21, 27 March 2024
The term doublespeak probably has its roots in George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four. Although the term is not used in the book, it is a similar to one of the book's central concepts, "doublethink". In the book, there is a "Ministry of Peace" that actually wages war and so on.