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		DropInIn on Aug 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Maps has become an eyesore I believe you mean "Doublespeak" rather than "Doublethink".

OfSanguineFire on Aug 7, 2023 [–]

No, “doublethink” is the term introduced in Orwell’s 1984.

DropInIn on Aug 7, 2023 | [–]

And those who've actually read it also know that Newspeak is also a term he coined and that since we don't actually have newspeak, the natural extrapolation of the term Doublethink into a spoken application is the term Doublespeak.... Right?

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