| 释义 |
-speak, suffix|spiːk|
The verb speak used, after Orwell's Newspeak and Oldspeak, as a substantival suffix (cf. speak n. 1) to denote a particular variety of language or characteristic mode of speaking.
1949, etc. [see Newspeak]. 1949, etc. [see Oldspeak]. 1960K. Amis Take Girl Like You xi. 140 Charlton, his creep-speak effectively silenced, had departed in protest-march style. 1966Science 13 May 875/1 We read of ‘space speak’ on every hand. Newspapers and magazines discuss it in their science columns... The belief is that the space effort has given us, in addition to the possibility of going to the moon, a new linguistic phenomenon. 1972College English Jan. 439 (heading) Doublespeak: dialectology in the service of Big Brother. 1980Times 27 Feb. 14/2 Such emphasizers as undoubtedly (Ponderoso Speak: indubitably)..diminish, if they do not actually destroy the assurance of a statement. 1981Times 28 Jan. 7/1 (heading) Haigspeak rewrites the grammar. 1981Guardian 1 May 2/4 ‘I am very sorry that I cannot be with you today... I am most grateful and touched that you have decided to name a locomotive after me,’ it [sc. a telegram] said in classic royalspeak. |