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* The society in ''[[The Giver]]'' enforced what it called "precision of language." Children are strongly reprimanded for using any kind of exaggeration or figurative language, because they lump it under "lying". (The example given is a child who says he is starving when he is only very hungry, because implying that the state would really let anyone starve is seen as extremely problematic.) They can still play pretend, though, so it doesn't hamper their thinking.
** Additionally, due to the Giver system, a great deal of the very concepts of the old world (stavation, war, etc) have been or are in the process of being completely scrubbed out of the collective consciousness this way almost passively. [[Released to Elsewhere]] is a prime example: it is a [[Deadly Euphemism]] that nobody save the Giver even KNOWS is a euphemism because they have ceased to have virtually any concept of death. Which means that the authorities that order it and the doctors that perform it likely [[Fridge Horror|probably don't realize the full ramifications of what they are doing.]] In short: [[Up to Eleven|NewSpeak so powerful and entrenched that even those that mandate it and enforce don't really recognize it for what it is.]] [[Paranoia Fuel|Imagine the kind of psychological tampering THAT would require.]]
* In Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''[[Green-Sky Trilogy]]'', all negative emotions are lumped under the heading of "troubled" or "unjoyfulness." (And [[Stepford Smiler|displaying]] any sort of "unjoyfulness," or even [[The Empath|feeling it]] in excess, is generally [[
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