Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Language
To me, they change their language as much as we do. People are always changing words, adding new ones, not using old ones, and speaking differently according to the way everyone else speaks. In the story, Syme is in charge of taking away words. They are on their 11th edition of this Newspeak dictionary, and all they are doing is simplfying. This is pretty much the complete opposite of our society. I have never heard of anyone saying " I don't think this should be a word anymore." They don't just take words out of the dictionary. In a way, by removing all these words, they are continuing to take any uniqueness people have away. We can say we are happy, but we can also say that we are excited, joyful, exuberant, glad, all these words decribe the same thing, but in a more exciting and colorful way. The "Party" just continues to control everything even further by taking away certain words and dictating how someone has to speak.
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You are so right. We do change our language a lot, just not by getting rid of a word completely. I guess that would be the only difference. haha.
ReplyDeleteI agree with amccauley. We change all the time, but not in a bad way. We don't give up words, we get new ones. How would you like to be the same as every single person you know? To even talk the same? It would drive me crazy!
ReplyDeleteIt would drive me crazy too. I like how everyone is their own person and uses a variety of words in their vocabulary, yet no one is ever the same.
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