Website review: Nineteen Eighty Four - Appendix - B...
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cdez4 discovered 24 months ago- Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an Appendix after the end of the novel, 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 suited the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim was to make subversive thought ("thoughtcrime") and speech impossible.
- Darque rated 18 months ago
- Just brilliant... the etymological conventions that Orwell wrote about in his classic "1984" are now being used in real life. As I write this, new terms are coined in order to further divide people along ideological, political, racial, or social lines. As I write this, English teachers are, somewhere, actively reducing the vocabulary of their teachers because certain words are offensive - or might sound like other offensive words. As I write this, opposites are routinely believed to be identical. Defense Department, diplomatic solutions, great uniter... Newspeak is goodthink now, so I must represent crimethink, being that thought which so undermines the new world order, that which so opposes the expansion of power that it must be criminal. And, just for the record, it's NOO-CLE-AR, ya dumb redneck.
- Clarence95 rated 18 months ago
- Clean Air Act. No Child Left Behind. War on Terror.
Starting to sound familiar? - Clean Air Act. No Child Left Behind. War on Terror.
- basicballs rated 18 months ago
- If you haven't already, read the book 1984 by George Orwell. It is a must read.
- mojowire rated 20 months ago
- Classic book i have read many times since it was introduced to me in high school. Let me know when people start disappearing.
- just-me rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "The word free still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as 'This dog is free from lice' or 'This field is free from weeds%u2019. It could not be used in its old sense of 'politically free' or 'intellectually free' since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless."
- TOMTHUMB rated 20 months ago
- we hear this all the time on TV and Radio
- spectrekitty rated 24 months ago
- Newspeak Yes, the theory being, control the language, and you control the thought/thinking. Great concept!
- SchreiberBike rated 24 months ago
Appendix A from the book 1984 by George Orwell Orwel was a genius at projecting trends into the future while examining the philosophical implications of those trends. Below is a quote from the book 1984, where he explains the development of Newspeak, a language which would simplify thought and make it impossible to think new thoughts. "Consider, for example, such a typical sentence from a Times leading article as 'Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc.' The shortest rendering that one could make of this in Oldspeak would be: 'Those whose ideas were formed before the Revolution cannot have a full emotional understanding of the principles of English Socialism.' But this is not an adequate translation. To begin with, in order to grasp the full meaning of the Newspeak sentence quoted above, one would have to have a clear idea of what is meant by Ingsoc. And in addition, only a person thoroughly grounded in Ingsoc could appreciate the full force of the word bellyfeel, which implied a blind, enthusiastic acceptance difficult to imagine today; or of the word oldthink, which was inextricably mixed up with the idea of wickedness and decadence. But the special function of certain Newspeak words, of which oldthink was one, was not so much to express meanings as to destroy them.
I haven't read the book in many years, but this makes me want to go back and read it again. You should also read it just to understand the wider context of the 1984 Apple Macintosh add they repeat every year at Superbowl time. 1984 won't be like 1984.
