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Orwellian language points to climax (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

newspeak

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'orwellian language' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'points to climax' is the wordplay.
'points to' becomes 'news' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'climax' becomes 'peak' (I've seen this in another clue).
'news'+'peak'='NEWSPEAK'

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(Other definitions for newspeak that I've seen before include "language of politicians, perhaps" , "bureaucratic language" , "Deliberately ambiguous (Orwellian) language" , "Orwell's nineteen eighty four language" , "fictional language" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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