We shouldn’t make people read either.
Its a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isnt only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word, which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take good, for instance. If you have a word like good, what need is there for a word like bad? Ungood will do just as well better, because its an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of good, what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like excellent and splendid and all the rest of them? Plusgood covers the meaning or doubleplusgood if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak, therell be nothing else. In the end, the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words in reality, only one word. Dont you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.B.s idea originally, of course.We appear to be surrounded by self-professed teachers that seem to actually think like that.