Take heart. FWIW We reside in most conservative neighborhood of a world renowned seaside city on the central CA coast.

Bolenas ???

People see this on TV all the time, and in fact, lawyers use this formulation all the time, so they expect the witness to respond yes or no, and if they don’t the viewer realizes that the witness is not being forthright.

The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc — should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

Orwell continued:

Pre-revolutionary literature could only be subjected to
ideological translation — that is, alteration in sense as well as language. Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government. . .

It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping to the sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink.

Are we not close? Does not Palin duckspeak?

2) Did you sign off on the plan to offer Murlene Wilkes an inflated workers comp package for lying in the TrooperGate investigation?