Oldspeakn.

Brit.

/ˈəʊldspiːk/, U.S.

/ˈoʊl(d)ˌspik/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., speak v.

Etymology: < old adj. + speak v. (coined by ‘George Orwell’: see quot. 1949¹ at main sense). Compare Newspeak n. and -speak suffix.

In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four: the name used for ordinary English, as opposed to the artificial version Newspeak (cf. Newspeak n.). In extended use: normal English usage, as distinct from dated, technical, obfuscatory, or propagandist language.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > standard

King's English1553

king's languagea1566

Queen's English1592

received pronunciation?1710

Standard English1806

Southern English1860

World English1888

RP1889

Modified Standard English1913

Received Standard1913

B.B.C. English1928

Oldspeak1949

1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 54 You haven't a real appreciation of Newspeak... Even when you write it you're still thinking in Oldspeak.

1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 299 It was expected that Newspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by about the year 2050.

1960 Encounter Nov. 10/1 The substitution of ‘Newspeak’ for ‘Oldspeak’ (or present-day English) is designed to effect nothing less than the destruction of human reason by linguistic means.

1981 Event 9 Oct. 27/1 ‘Newspeak’, Orwell's language of the not-so-distant future,..enthusiastically battered intelligible, diverse English ‘oldspeak’ into its grave.

1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) viii. 128 There is the art of maintaining plausible deniability, which in oldspeak might have been called ‘covering your tracks and lying through your teeth’.

2002 Northern Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 13 Sept. I was using oldspeak, which designated ropes by their circumference. He spoke newspeak, which refers to rope by its diameter.

Derivatives

ˈOldspeaker n. rare a person who avoids jargon and obfuscation.

ΚΠ

1974 Daily Tel. 20 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 10/3 Sometimes they say that ‘real’ freedom, being quite different from the crude concept mistakenly used by Oldspeakers, can exist only in a socialist state.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	oldspeak
释义	Oldspeakn. Brit. /ˈəʊldspiːk/, U.S. /ˈoʊl(d)ˌspik/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., speak v. Etymology: < old adj. + speak v. (coined by ‘George Orwell’: see quot. 1949¹ at main sense). Compare Newspeak n. and -speak suffix. In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four: the name used for ordinary English, as opposed to the artificial version Newspeak (cf. Newspeak n.). In extended use: normal English usage, as distinct from dated, technical, obfuscatory, or propagandist language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > standard King's English1553 king's languagea1566 Queen's English1592 received pronunciation?1710 Standard English1806 Southern English1860 World English1888 RP1889 Modified Standard English1913 Received Standard1913 B.B.C. English1928 Oldspeak1949 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 54 You haven't a real appreciation of Newspeak... Even when you write it you're still thinking in Oldspeak. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 299 It was expected that Newspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by about the year 2050. 1960 Encounter Nov. 10/1 The substitution of ‘Newspeak’ for ‘Oldspeak’ (or present-day English) is designed to effect nothing less than the destruction of human reason by linguistic means. 1981 Event 9 Oct. 27/1 ‘Newspeak’, Orwell's language of the not-so-distant future,..enthusiastically battered intelligible, diverse English ‘oldspeak’ into its grave. 1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) viii. 128 There is the art of maintaining plausible deniability, which in oldspeak might have been called ‘covering your tracks and lying through your teeth’. 2002 Northern Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 13 Sept. I was using oldspeak, which designated ropes by their circumference. He spoke newspeak, which refers to rope by its diameter. Derivatives ˈOldspeaker n. rare a person who avoids jargon and obfuscation. ΚΠ 1974 Daily Tel. 20 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 10/3 Sometimes they say that ‘real’ freedom, being quite different from the crude concept mistakenly used by Oldspeakers, can exist only in a socialist state. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1949
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