I believe that applies to languages in their entirety (eg having no words for numbers). I believe this maybe an important difference. Changing the emotional co

I believe that applies to languages in their entirety (eg having no words for numbers). I believe this maybe an important difference. Changing the emotional context of a small number of words; moving a concept from a socially unacceptable word into a socially acceptable one, seems fairly different. So I think we're talking about two different things here. So while Orwell's "new speak" seems clearly to embody linguistic determinism, using "collateral damage" for "civilian deaths" inside a larger language may not be.