Newspeak
Vocabulary
ante — The prefix that replaces before artsem — Artificial insemination bb — Big Brother bellyfeel — The blind, enthusiastic acceptance of an idea blackwhite — When used on an opponent, it means to believe that black is white, despite the facts; on a Party member, it means the ability to believe that black is white, to know that black is white, and to forget that one ever believed the contrary crimestop — To rid oneself of unorthodox thoughts that interfere with believing the tenets of Ingsoc's ideology crimethink — The criminal act of holding politically unorthodox thoughts that contradict the tenets of Ingsoc, frequently referred to by the standard English “thoughtcrime” dayorder — Order of the day doubleplusgood — The word that replaced Oldspeak words meaning "superlatively good", such as excellent, fabulous, and fantastic doubleplusungood — The word that replaced Oldspeak words meaning "superlatively bad", such as terrible and horrible doublethink — The act of simultaneously believing two, mutually contradictory ideas duckspeak — Automatic, vocal support of political orthodoxies facecrime — A facial expression which communicates that they have committed thoughtcrime Ficdep — The Ministry of Truth's Fiction Department free — The absence and the lack of something –ful — The suffix for forming an adjective good — A synonym for "orthodox" and orthodoxy goodthink — Political orthodoxy as defined by the Party goodsex — Sexual intercourse only for procreation, with zero physical pleasure on the woman's part, and strictly in a marriage context ingsoc — English Socialism joycamp — Labour camp malquoted — Inaccurate representations of the words of Big Brother and of the Party Miniluv — The Ministry of Love, where the secret police interrogate and torture the enemies of Oceania Minipax — The Ministry of Peace, who wage defensive war for Oceania Minitrue — The Ministry of Truth, who manufacture consent by way of propaganda and distorted historical records, while supplying the proles (proletariat) with culture and entertainment Miniplenty — The Ministry of Plenty, who keep the population in continual economic hardship (starvation and rationing) Oldspeak – Standard English oldthink — Ideas from the time before the Party's revolution ownlife — A person's anti-social tendency to enjoy solitude and individualism plusgood — The word that replaced Oldspeak words meaning "very good", such as great plusungood — The word that replaced Oldspeak words meaning "very bad" Pornosec — The pornography production section (Pornography sector) of the Ministry of Truth's Fiction Department prolefeed — Popular culture for entertaining Oceania's working class Recdep — The Ministry of Truth's Records Department, where Winston Smith edits historical records so they conform to the Party's agenda rectify — The Ministry of Truth's euphemism for manipulating a historical record ref — To refer (to someone or something) sec — Sector sexcrime — A sexual immorality, such as fornication, adultery, oral sex, and homosexuality speakwrite — A machine that transcribes speech into text Teledep — The Ministry of Truth's Telecommunications Department telescreen — A two-way television set with which the Party spy upon Oceania's population thinkpol — The Thought Police unperson — An executed person whose existence is erased from public and private memory upsub — An upwards submission to higher authority –wise — The only suffix for forming an adverb The words of the A vocabulary describe the functional concepts of daily life (e.g. eating and drinking, working and cooking), mostly of Oldspeak words. The words of the B vocabulary are constructed to convey complex ideas; compound words (noun-verb) of political implication mean to impose upon and instill to the user the politically correct mental attitude required by the Party, e.g. the Newspeak word goodthink denotes "political orthodoxy", and is inflected according to the grammar of Standard English. The words of the C vocabulary are technical terms that supplement the linguistic functions of the A and B vocabularies. Distribution of the C vocabulary is limited, because the Party do not want the citizens of Oceania to know more than one way of life and techniques of production. Hence, the Oldspeak word science has no equivalent term in Newspeak, instead, there are specific technical words for speaking of technical fields.
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