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Doublespeak is a blending of Double-talk and Newspeak, the insidious language of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four .
We who are in control of the media and therefore aware of the context in which unclear English is used, know what's going on (and therefore the meanings of the utterances used to describe it), while the vulgar (to use Berkeley's delightful expression for those with a shaky grasp of vocabulary and syntax who are therefore ill equipped to understand some particular bit of newspeak) are led to believe, when they fail to fathom what's going on, that the failure in comprehension is entirely their fault.
In keeping with conservative newspeak, Gingrich referred to these as the taxes on "savings and job creation" and the tax on "death benefits."
For although the vocabulary does make important use of computer terminology, and although it does share with newspeak a penchant for blends and acronyms and an avoidance of adjectives and adverbs, it reflects a manner and an environment greater than both computerese and newspeak.
Using the estimates promoted by the Rent Stabilization Association (the newspeak name for the group representing landlords who actually wish to end rent stabilization), the typical one-bedroom in the Village or on the Upper West Side might go for $1,300 to $1,400 after the shakeout.
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