Frank Kemper
December 25th 07, 08:49 PM
differed from most all other
languages in that its vocabulary grew smaller instead of larger every year.
Each reduction was a gain, since the smaller the area of choice, the
smaller the temptation to take thought. Ultimately it was hoped to make
articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain
centres at all. This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word
duckspeak, meaning 'to quack like a duck'. Like various other words in the
B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided that the
opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but
praise, and when the Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a
doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment.
The C vocabulary. The C vocabulary was supplementary to the others and
consisted entirely of scientific and technical terms. These resembled the
scientific terms in use today, and were constructed from the same roots,
but the usual care was taken to define them rigidly and strip them of
undesirable meanings. They followed the same grammatical rules as the words
in the other two vocabularies. Very few of the C words had any currency
either in everyday speech or in political speech. Any scientific worker or
technician could find all the words he needed in the list devoted to his
own speciality, but he
languages in that its vocabulary grew smaller instead of larger every year.
Each reduction was a gain, since the smaller the area of choice, the
smaller the temptation to take thought. Ultimately it was hoped to make
articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain
centres at all. This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word
duckspeak, meaning 'to quack like a duck'. Like various other words in the
B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided that the
opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but
praise, and when the Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a
doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment.
The C vocabulary. The C vocabulary was supplementary to the others and
consisted entirely of scientific and technical terms. These resembled the
scientific terms in use today, and were constructed from the same roots,
but the usual care was taken to define them rigidly and strip them of
undesirable meanings. They followed the same grammatical rules as the words
in the other two vocabularies. Very few of the C words had any currency
either in everyday speech or in political speech. Any scientific worker or
technician could find all the words he needed in the list devoted to his
own speciality, but he