On Translating Securityspeak into English
In the Land of False Cognates

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/28/on-translating-securityspeak-into-english/
Date Written:  2012-08-28
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2012
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14500

The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal truth, rather than convey them.

Subject Headings

• Anti-Democratic Ideologies & Structures
• Doublespeak
• Framing Issues
• Lying
• National Security
• Propaganda
• U.S. History