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Words and Words

Newspeak is unugly talk, and good to hear. Its words: Exact. Their purpose: Clear. I write as I talk as I think. You know as you talk as you read. Talk goodwise of the mans who maked it. But there is a way to write, unnameful, Just words and words, of unugly hearing, Which make a man think abwordfully. This, some thinked, was good to unmake, And Newspeak was the knife they choosed.

If mans abhaved mouths or tongues or throat, Do you think they would be abhearful also? The world is unquiet, and its look unugly. Hear: Birds would teach by their talk, While water would still move on the rocks.

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I abhave things to give except blood, work, and water: from the eyes and from the body.

Winston Churchill

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I

Noun | A-class vocabulary

1. That one which is talking. ‘I am writing this example and you are reading it.’

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12 Affix Workshows

Do not talk, ‘demonstration,’ but rather, ‘workshow.’

Do not talk, ‘increase’ or ‘decrease,’ but rather, ‘make pluswise’ or ‘make unpluswise.’

Do not talk, ‘ice,’ but rather, ‘coldwater.’

Do not talk, ‘milk,’ but rather, ‘whitewater.’

Do not talk, ‘doctor,’ but rather, ‘medman.’

Do not talk, ‘supervisor,’ but rather, ‘workleadman.’

Do not say, ‘apple,’ but rather, ‘redfruit.’

Do not say, ‘sheep,’ but rather, ‘clothbeast.’

Do not say, ‘yesterday’ or ‘tomorrow,’ but rather, ‘antenowday’ or ‘postnowday.’

Do not say, ‘I go home after work’ or ‘I go to work again after foodtime,’ but rather, ‘I go home postwork’ or ‘I rework postfoodtime.’

Do not say, ‘about five days from now,’ but rather, ‘unexact five days postnow.’

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Beast

Noun | A-class vocabulary

1. Any lifeful thing which moves and eats but is not a man. ‘Whitewater comes from beasts.’

Do not talk, ‘John Smith is a shepherd,’ but rather, ‘John Smith is a clothbeastman.’

Do not talk, ‘Meat rations have been made pluswise 5 grams,’ but rather, ‘Beastfood rations have been made pluswise 5 grams.’

Do not talk, ‘Sick is sometimes unstopped by germs,’ but rather, ‘Sick is sometimes unstopped by microbeasts.’

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Memo: Affixes, Un- and Ab-

Nowwise, it is normful to use affix un- as in good and ungood, front and unfront, etc but also as in unneed and unwant. 

Problem: Unable to know differ between eg ‘reverse of need’ and ‘lack of need.’

Postproblem: Keep affix un- for reverses, employ ab- (ie Oldspeak ‘absent’) for lack. 

~ Lennon Burke, Resdep

Postproblem good. Use plusnowwise. 

~ Alger Blacklock, Resdep

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“Sonnet 1,” by William Shakespeare

From unuglyful beings we want more,  So that Unugly’s flower might still life,  And as one man will old and sick and fail,   His unolder son might retake his work. 

But you, unhating your unugly face,  Know just your eyes and must be unlookful, Making hunger where much unhunger lies,  Yourself your unfriend, to yourself unkind.

You are like the world’s one unold flower,  Growing in colorful postwinter, but Your body hides muchful seed and pollen, And this, thoughtcrimer, is stealing by waste.

Think of Oceania, else you be Ungood, unmourned, a life that is unlife.

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If poems are builded on form and function, then which, when changing them from one language to the other, is goodest? The postask, of course, is function, else there would be no function to change to Newspeak, but it is undiligent to write lines like they are onely slogans. 

The undiligent writer sees that Shakespeare commands, and writes lines of duty: Sacrifice. Work. Love. Freedom is slavery, in 14 lines. 

There is no need to change all poems, or even 1 poem, if this is goodest, but we change poems to Newspeak, so it is ungood. Rather, we must keep as much form as we can, while keeping all function with regard to Ingsoc. Yet, talks a Shakespeare expert, Shakespeare changed method of poems. We, too, can change without losing what is essenceful. 

Line by line, Shakespeare talks goodsex. Some mans think (to talk Oldspeak) “that no sex is goodsex,” but Shakespeare teaches that to not is crimesex also, just uncommoner form. 

Thus, the undiligent writer loses much goodness by talking, “Duty, duty.” Mans must be teached, part by part, and if we talk only “Duty, duty,” then they ask, “What is duty?” 

Shakespeare teaches us: This is duty.

So: Change diligently. Observe form. Care. 

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Bread

Noun | A-class vocabulary

1. A cooked food with a hardly out and unhardly unout. ‘Bread is a common part of rations.’

Do not talk, ‘Dough is cooked in the uncoldbox,’ but rather, ‘Prebread is cooked in the uncoldbox.’

Do not talk, ‘Bread is made from grain,’ but rather, ‘Bread is made from foodplants.’

Do not talk, ‘I made bread antenowday,’ but rather, ‘I breaded antenowday.’

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Now

Noun | A-class vocabulary

1. The part of time happening as you read this. ‘Start working now.’

Do not talk, ‘Start immediately,’ but rather, ‘Start nowwise.’

Do not talk, ‘If now is unwinter, then last season was postwinter,’ but rather, ‘If now is unwinter, then prenow season is postwinter.” 

Do not talk, ‘You will have new work tomorrow,’ but rather, ‘You will have new work postnowday.’

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Need

Verb | A-vocabulary

1. To be unable to work unwith a thing. ‘Mans need bread to live.’

Do not talk, ‘Capitalists haved overmuch bread than they needed,’ but rather, ‘Capitalists haved overneedful bread.’

Do not talk, ‘Water is needed by muchful things,’ but rather, ‘Water is needful.’

Do not talk, ‘This work has muchful requirements,’ but rather, ‘This work has muchful needs.’

Note: What is needful is usually good and what is unneedful is usually ungood, but not always: Eurasia needs guns to war Oceania, but Eurasia is ungood. 

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Red

Adjective | A-class vocabulary

1. A color which is closest to the look of blood. 

Do not say, ‘The sky is blue,’ but rather, ‘The sky is unred.’

Do not say, ‘I will make paint this flag with red,’ but rather, ‘I will red this flag.’

Do not say, ‘This is very red,’ but rather, ‘This is plusred.’

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Life

Noun | A-class vocabulary

1. A state of existing in which a thing must eat, and can grow and sex. ‘All beasts have life.’

Do not talk, ‘My worklead died unexact two months ago,’ but rather, ‘My worklead unlifed unexact two months ago.’

Do not talk, ‘All lives must work as one,’ but rather ‘All lifes must work as one.’

Do not talk, ‘A drowned man can sometimes be saved by a medman,’ but rather, ‘A drowned man may sometimes be relifed by a medman.’

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Black

Adjective | A-class vocabulary

1. A color which is closest to that which is looked when you close your eyes in a darkly room. ‘The ink of my pen is black.’

Do not talk, ‘Solidwater is white,’ but rather, ‘Solidwater is unblackful.’

Do not talk, ‘The food was cooked ungoodly long, till it was blackened,’ but rather, ‘The food was cooked ungoodly long, till it blacked.’

Do not talk, ‘Nothing can be blacker than this paint,’ but rather, ‘This paint is blackest than all things.’

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Partial List of Affixes, part 2

Antethis: Newspeak Grammar Teaches, Partial List of Affixes

To say that a word is possible, with reference to some other thing, give it the affix -able.

To get the name of the place where a word happens, give it the affix -place.

To get the name of a time when a word happens, give it the affix -time.

To get the name of a man who does that word for work, give it the affix -man.

To get the name of all the teaches relating to a certain word, give it the affix -logy or -ology.

To compare something to a word, give it the affix -like.

To make a word partful, give it the affix part-. One may modify this easywise by saying eg pluspart-. It is good to specify the amount. 

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Letter Names

There are twenty-six letters in the letterlist: a/A, b/B, c/C, etc. Each has a small form (eg a) and an unsmall form (eg A). 

The name of the first letter, a/A, is onewiseletter. The name of the second letter, b/B, is twowiseletter. Name afterful letters samewise.

Do not talk, ‘I will write an A,’ but rather, ‘I will A.’ For other letters it is sameful. Remember: What is existful, is doable, and what is doable, is existful; or, in Oldspeak, ‘every noun can be a verb, and every verb can be a noun.’

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Affix

Noun | A-vocabulary

1. A word which is normful fused with another word. ‘The word un- is an affix.’

Do not talk, ‘To make a word an adjective, combine it in with the affix un-,’ but rather, ‘To make a word an adjective, affix un-.’

Do not talk, ‘When you affix two words, you make a portmanteau,’ but rather, ‘When you affix two words, you make an affixword.’

Do not talk, ‘Newspeak is gooder than Oldspeak in its use of affixes,’ but rather, ‘Newspeak is gooder than Oldspeak affixwise.’

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Want

Verb | A-class vocabulary

1. To feel something as good or needful. ‘When you are hungerful, you want food.’

Do not talk, ‘This thing is wanted,’ but rather, ‘This thing is wantful.’

Do not talk, ‘Mans have a normful desire to do good work,’ but rather, ‘Mans have a normful want to do good work.’

Do not talk, ‘My needs are satisfied,’ but rather, ‘I am unwantful nowwise.’