Orwellian language
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George Orwell
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| Founder(s) | George Orwell |
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Orwellian language is language chosen to hide the truth, especially language which inverts the truth.
Etymology
The phrase is a refence to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, a dystopian novel about a totalitarian superstate which uses perpetual war against one or both of its two competing superstates to keep the large majority of its population in poverty and ignorance.
