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December 25th 07, 10:29 PM
breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it
was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had
won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
1949
THE END
Appendix
THE PRINCIPLES OF NEWSPEAK
Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to
meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism. In the year
1984 there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of
communication, either in speech or writing. The leading articles in the
Times were written in it, but this was a tour de force which could only be
carried out by a specialist. It was expected that Newspeak would have
finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by
about the year 2050. Meanwhile it gained ground steadily, all Party members
tending to use Newspeak words and grammatical constructions more and more
in their everyday speech. The version in use in 1984, and embodied in the
Ninth and Tenth Editions of the Newspeak Dictionary, was a provisional one,
and contained many superfluous words and archaic formations which were due
to be suppressed later. It is with the final, perfected version, as
embodied in the Eleventh Edition of the Dictionary, that we are concerned
here.
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression
for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but
to make all other modes of th
was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had
won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
1949
THE END
Appendix
THE PRINCIPLES OF NEWSPEAK
Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to
meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism. In the year
1984 there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of
communication, either in speech or writing. The leading articles in the
Times were written in it, but this was a tour de force which could only be
carried out by a specialist. It was expected that Newspeak would have
finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by
about the year 2050. Meanwhile it gained ground steadily, all Party members
tending to use Newspeak words and grammatical constructions more and more
in their everyday speech. The version in use in 1984, and embodied in the
Ninth and Tenth Editions of the Newspeak Dictionary, was a provisional one,
and contained many superfluous words and archaic formations which were due
to be suppressed later. It is with the final, perfected version, as
embodied in the Eleventh Edition of the Dictionary, that we are concerned
here.
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression
for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but
to make all other modes of th