Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Language...
Words are being added and subtracted from our dictionary all the time. In the book 1984, it seems that they are only doing one of these; subtracting. They are trying to make everybody the same and take away singleness. They are on their eleventh edition of the dictionary, making it smaller and less unique each time. If they just subtract words, everything would sound blah. Syme says they are just going to use only a few words, adding prefixes and suffixes to them. I personally don't agree with these changes. Everything would be boring. I like using the color words to describe certain things, and i feel that so do many other people. It just shows that big brother and the party are trying to controll every aspect of life.
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Yeah I would like stop talking all together if this ever happened. Talking would be almost pointless and boring! I think Big Brother just wants their language to center around them and nothing else.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Alissa on this. It would be boring. Who wants to be told they did a "plusgood" job instead of an excellent job? It seems just plain stupid!
ReplyDeleteI see your point, but I don't think Big Brother just wants it to be about them. I think he is just blinded my his vision of a utopian society and doesn't see how bad it would be.
ReplyDeleteI agree. The fact that Syme is actually excited about this change also shows how no one really has a personality or any uniqueness anymore. It has really all been sucked out of them by Big Brother
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