Newspeak

My notes on the Wikipedia article "Newspeak"

- Deliberately impoverished language promoted by the state.

- A greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. 

- This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party.

- To make any alternative thinking "thoughtcrime", or "crime think".

- Impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion.

- Citing examples of dying metaphors, pretentious diction or rhetoric, and meaningless words.

To remove synonyms and antonyms

- Remove all shades of meaning from language, leaving simple dichotomies.

- Which reinforce the total dominance of the State.

- Words served as both nouns and verbs.

- A staccato rhythm of short syllables.

- Words with negative meanings were removed as redundant.

- Comparative and superlative meanings were also simplified.

- Adjectives were formed by adding the suffix "-ful".

- An obedient word with which everyone answered affirmatively to what was asked of them.

- All definitions and words that can be used to argue against Big Brother would be eradicated from the language.

- Newspeak on Esperanto.

To control thought

- Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be.

- There will be no thought, as we understand it now.

- Generically, Newspeak has come to mean any attempt to restrict disapproved language by agovernment or other powerful entity.

Vocabulary

- "A" group: simple concepts entirely made up words 

- "B" group: convey more complicated ideas political implications "goodthink" roughly means "orthodoxy". 

- "C" group: technical vocabulary. Party does not want its people to be intelligent in multiple fields.

This article has helped me to understand and define Newspeak in a clear and understandable way, giving me better knowledge of Orwell's message and purpose of the novel. I would like to further investigate Esperanto, as from what the article has told me Esperanto is the real world equivalent of Newspeak.