Newspeak

In our society, we're always making changes to words. We modify them so that they're easier and quicker to say. The Ministry of Truth makes changes to their dictionaries as their vocabulary changes, as do we. Syme talks about getting rid of words all together. For example, he believes that someday they'll get rid of words that are basically stronger versions of "good", such as "excellent" and "splendid" because he believes those words are useless. He thinks they'll replace it with "plusgood" and "doubleplusgood" to still get the stronger meaning. In our society, we do stop using certain words, but we don't get rid of them all together. I believe our language could improve some how, but i'm not really certain of how. I don't have a problem with The Ministry of Truth making new words, but the fact that they are getting rid of words altogether shows just how much Big Brother has to control things.