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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The Newspeak Language

In 1984, the Ministry of Truth is removing and adding words to the dictionary for the 11th edition. In the book it gives the example of removing the word "bad" and replacing it with "ungood" that way you are really only using one word. I, like most other people, disagree with this because it takes away from the art of our language. If we did this, poets would have a hard time writing poems and we would not have as many. Although these things for the most part would be bad, I do see why Big Brother chose to do this. I think it would make our language much easier and more efficient. We could more easily communicate and understand each other. Today, I don't believe much could be done to make our language better. If the government did decide to change it, I think it would cause more trouble than anything else. People would be angry and start to cause a lot of trouble. Even though George Orwell had a good point, I don't think anything will change in the future.

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