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Newspeak.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Several years ago I read George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language." Orwell opened my mind to the dangers of "Newspeak." Since then I have reread it, along with his explanation on "The Principles of Newspeak" at the end of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which I must admit left an even more profound effect upon my mind. I learned that bad language equates bad ...
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