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roots, but the usual care was taken to define them rigidly and strip
them of undesirable meanings. They followed the same grammatical rules
as the words in the other two vocabularies. Very few of the C words had
any currency either in everyday speech or in political speech. Any
scientific worker or technician could find all the words he needed in
the list devoted to his own speciality, but he seldom had more than a
smattering of the words occurring in the other lists. Only a very few
words were common to all lists, and there was no vocabulary expressing
the function of Science as a habit of mind, or a method of thought,
irrespective of its particular branches. There was, indeed, no word for
?Science?, any meaning that it could possibly bear being already
sufficiently covered by the word Ingsoc.

From the foregoing account it will be seen that in Newspeak the
expression of unorthodox opinions, above a very low level, was well-nigh
impossible. It was of course possible to utter heresies of a very crude
kind, a species of blasphemy. It would have been possible, for example,
to say Big Brother is ungood. But this statement, which to an orthodox
ear merely conveyed a self-evident absurdity, could not have been
sustained by reasoned argument, because the necessary words were not
available. Ideas inimical to Ingsoc could only be entertained in a vague
wordless form, and could only be named in very broad terms which lumped
together and condemned whole groups of heresies without defining them in
doing so. One could, in fact, only use Newspeak for unorthodox purposes
by illegitimately translating some of the words back into Oldspeak. For
example, All mans are equal was a possible Newspeak sentence, but only
in the same sense in which All men are redhaired is a possible Oldspeak
sentence. It did not contain a grammatical error, but it expressed a
palpable untruth -- i.e. that all men are of equal size, weight, or
strength. The conc


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