"His thin dark face had become animated, his eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost dreamy.
‘It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
..the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.
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It isn't 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 it's 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”

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>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 there'll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be
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>covered by only six words — in reality, only one word. don't you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B. B.'s idea originally, of course,’ he added as an afterthought.

A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across [his]'s face at the mention of Big Brother." (Orwell, 1984)

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