"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." One of Winstons coworkers, named Syme, works destroying words and makeing them into newspeak beleives less words are more clear and will help better the nation. Syme is completely dedicated to the vocabulary of newspeak, and very much enjoys his work, he even takes it on his lunch break. Instead of haveing contradicting words like, good and bad, in newspeak there is only one such as, good and ungood. and instead of adverbs they simply add the word plus at the begining of the word.
I really disagree that useing more intricate words makes you seem less educated, but then again Im not in Winstons society. People who use grandiloquent language are usually more intelligent and more highly praised. But in the book 1984 only the proles use correct language anymore. Even Winston who is in the party finds that he prefers to speak using old speak. It seems that most the things in this society contradict themselves.
Everything in 1984 is broken, the city is broken, the people are broken, the language is broken, yet the think everything is beautiful. its funny, war is peace, but in newspeak all the slogans of the party sound ridiculous. War is unwar, slavery is unslavery, ignorance is unignorance. to destroy half the words seems paradoxically stupid. Im a big fan of words...and i think destroying them to dumb down the population is horrible.
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