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or English Socialism. In the year
1984 there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of
communication, either in speech or writing. The leading articles in the
Times were written in it, but this was a tour de force which could only be
carried out by a specialist. It was expected that Newspeak would have
finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by
about the year 2050. Meanwhile it gained ground steadily, all Party members
tending to use Newspeak words and grammatical constructions more and more
in their everyday speech. The version in use in 1984, and embodied in the
Ninth and Tenth Editions of the Newspeak Dictionary, was a provisional one,
and contained many superfluous words and archaic formations which were due
to be suppressed later. It is with the final, perfected version, as
embodied in the Eleventh Edition of the Dictionary, that we are concerned
here.
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression
for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but
to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when
Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a
heretical thought -- that is, a thought diverging from the principles of
Ingsoc -- should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is
dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and
often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could
properly wish to express, while exclud