The purpo of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsobsp;but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted onbsp;and for all and Oldspeak fotten, a heretibsp;thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsobsp;— should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is depe on words.
Its vocabulary was so structed as to give exabsp;and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by i methods. This was done partly by the iion of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping subsp;words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all dary meanings whatever. To give a single example. The word free still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be ud in subsp;statements as“This dog is free from lice”or“This field is free from weeds”.
The purpo of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsobsp;but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted onbsp;and for all and Oldspeak fotten, a heretibsp;thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsobsp;— should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is depe on words.
Its vocabulary was so structed as to give exabsp;and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by i methods. This was done partly by the iion of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping subsp;words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all dary meanings whatever. To give a single example. The word free still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be ud in subsp;statements as“This dog is free from lice”or“This field is free from weeds”.
It could not be ud in its old n of“politically free”or“intellectually free” sinbsp;politibsp;and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as cepts, and were therefore of y nameless. Quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, redu of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itlf, and no word that could be dispend with was allowed to survive.