The extinction of culture, language... something the Globalists and Left care little about.
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. [ ]I would say they care about redefining it, of course. This is what they are doing.
Dont you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, were not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year, fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, theres no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. Its merely a question of self-discipline; reality control. But in the end, there wont be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part 1, Chapter 5: Syme to Winston
“The extinction of culture, language... something the Globalists and Left care little about.”
Unless it’s some tribal dialect spoken by three people.