Translating Anti-Gun Propaganda into English
4:00pm Tuesday, August 13, 2013
In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four , a tyrannical government attempts to control how people think by, among other things, reducing language to "a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc [English Socialism]" and "to make all other modes of thought impossible." In the IngSoc government's new language, Newspeak, the original meanings of many...

