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What "Orwellian" really means – Noah Tavlin (5:31), TED-Ed [1] Orwellian is an adjective which is used to describe a situation, an idea, or a societal condition that 20th century author George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society . [ 2 ]
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky comment in their book Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media that Orwellian doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called dichotomization, a component of media propaganda involving "deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news."
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
If you’re stuck trying to solve today’s Wordle puzzle, you've come to the right place. Before jumping into the hints and solutions for the Thursday, Feb. 20 puzzle, though, let’s go over the ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
The Orwell Archive at University College London contains undated notes about ideas that evolved into Nineteen Eighty-Four.The notebooks have been deemed "unlikely to have been completed later than January 1944", and "there is a strong suspicion that some of the material in them dates back to the early part of the war".
In his report, named after the holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld, Senator Paul highlights what he describes as over $1 trillion in government waste, including a $12 million Las Vegas ...
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...