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   From: unPerson@IngSoc.gov.CCCP   
      
   NewSpeak   
      
   "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller   
   every year".   
      
   "The underlying theory of NewSpeak is that if something can't   
   be said, then it can't be thought."   
      
   "Orwell included an essay about it in the form   
   of an appendix[*1] in which the basic principles of the   
   language are explained. NewSpeak is closely based on   
   English but has a greatly reduced and simplified   
   vocabulary and grammar. This suits the totalitarian   
   regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative   
   thinking — "thoughtcrime", or "crimethink" in the newest   
   edition of NewSpeak — or speech impossible by removing   
   any words or possible constructs which describe the   
   ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on."   
      
   One character says admiringly of the shrinking volume of the new   
   dictionary: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."   
      
      
      
   To control thought   
      
   *1  NewSpeak Appendix   
      
      
   @ bellyfeel: means a blind, enthusiastic acceptance of an idea.   
      
   @ Blackwhite: this word has two mutually contradictory meanings.   
                  Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of   
                  impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction   
                  of the plain facts.   
                  Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness   
                  to say that black is white when Party discipline demands   
                  this. But it means also the ability to believe that black   
                  is white, and more, to know that white is black, and to   
                  forget that one has ever believed the contrary.   
                  This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made   
                  possible by the system of thought which really embraces   
                  all the rest, and which is known in NewSpeak as   
                  doublethink.   
      
   @ Crimethink is the NewSpeak word for thoughtcrime (thoughts   
      that are unorthodox, or are outside the official government   
      platform), as well as the verb meaning "to commit thoughtcrime".   
      
   @Duckspeak: a NewSpeak term meaning literally to quack like a duck   
                or to speak without thinking. Duckspeak can be either   
                good or "ungood" (bad), depending on who is speaking,   
                and whether what they are saying is in following with   
                the ideals of Big Brother. To speak rubbish and lies   
                may be ungood, but to speak rubbish and lies for the   
                good of "The Party" may be good. In the appendix to   
               1984, Orwell explains:   
      
                   "Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech   
                    issue from the larynx without involving the higher   
                    brain centres at all."   
      
               duckspeak is ambivalent in meaning. Provided that the   
               opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones,   
              it implied nothing but praise.   
      
      
       e.g. Fran is a doubleplusgood duckspeaker   
      
   @ Goodthink, which is approved by the Party, is the opposite of   
                 crimethink.   
      
   @ Goodsex   
      and sexcrime: Goodsex is any form of sex considered acceptable by   
                    the Party; specifically, this refers only to sex for   
                    the exclusive purpose of providing new children for   
                    the Party. All other forms of sex are considered   
                    sexcrime.   
      
   @ miniluv: "Ministry of Love" (secret police, interrogation and torture)   
      
   @ minipax: "Ministry of Peace" (Ministry of War, cf: 'Department of   
                Defense' vs 'War Department')   
      
   @ minitrue: "Ministry of Truth" (propaganda and altering history)   
      
   @ miniplenty: "Ministry of Plenty" (keeping the population in   
                   a state of constant economic hardship)   
      
   @ misprints: Errors or mispredictions which need to be rectified in   
                 order to prove that the Party is always right.   
                 See malquoted above.   
   @ oldthink: ideas inspired by events or memories of times prior   
                to the Revolution.   
      
   @ Ownlife: Ownlife refers to the tendency to enjoy being solitary,   
               which is considered subversive.   
      
   @ prolefeed: the steady stream of mindless entertainment to distract   
                 and occupy the masses   
      
   @ rectify: Used by the Ministry of Truth as a euphemism for   
               the deliberate alteration of the past.   
      
   @ thinkpol: The Thought Police   
      
   @ Unperson: An unperson is a person who has been "vaporized"; who has   
                been not only killed by the state, but effectively erased   
                from existence.   
      
   See also;   
      
   thought-terminating cliché   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)