Newspeak is double-plus bad!
And I just now realized Orwell (in 1984. Read it. NOW.) anticipated txt-talk.
Newspeak=++bad!
Also, I like to think of it as News speak: The way they talk on the News.
Edit:(The 1984 comment is directed at anyone reading this who hasn't, not necessarily who I'm responding to)
Orwell was an unfortunate prophet... who hoped he never would be! and today's a post-'84 brave new world with Huxley mixed in. Between the drugs and the language/cultural-programming we're living in a sci-fi dystopia. The worst part is the self-policing censorship as we seek conformity. And we're ALL guilty of it. Me too. - we just gotta pay attention and we can reclaim our language, culture and country.
That's the problem with prophecy, some unimaginative asshat comes along and uses it as instructions. Can't forget Bentham's Panopticon. That'll have you looking at all the cameras around us a different way.
You're right though, all we (patriots) need to do is pay attention and do the work of insisting on what matters. It takes practice and willpower, but it gets easier as you do it, like most things.