Newspeak

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  newspeak
       n : deliberately ambiguous and contradictiory language use to
           mislead and manipulate the public; "the welfare state
           brought its own newspeak"

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:



  Newspeak
       
          A language inspired by {Scratchpad}.
       
          [J.K. Foderaro.  "The Design of a Language for Algebraic
          Computation", Ph.D. Thesis, UC Berkeley, 1983].