Nov 30 2022
Newspeak itself is characterised by a continuously diminishing vocabulary to reflect the “reality” the Party is trying to present. So, words, phrases, and ideas can become entirely extinct with one decree, synonyms and antonyms are removed from language. So, bad becomes extinct (until the Party decrees otherwise), and ungood is taken into use. To express different levels of good, words like gooder and goodest are used. At the same time, words such as great and excellent lose their meaning and are replaced by adding affixes such as plusgood and doubleplusgood. In addition, Newspeak borrows from Russian to create some of its more memorable terms – kolkhoz, Komsomol, and politburo all come from Russian and have a meaning similar to terms used in the USSR.
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