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and past participle,
goodthinked; present participle, goodthinking; adjective, goodthinkful;
adverb, goodthinkwise; verbal noun, goodthinker.

The B words were not constructed on any etymological plan. The words of
which they were made up could be any parts of speech, and could be
placed in any order and mutilated in any way which made them easy to
pronounce while indicating their derivation. In the word crimethink
(thoughtcrime), for instance, the think came second, whereas in thinkpol
(Thought Police) it came first, and in the latter word police had lost
its second syllable. Because of the great difficulty in securing
euphony, irregular formations were commoner in the B vocabulary than in
the A vocabulary. For example, the adjective forms of Minitrue, Minipax,
and Miniluv were, respectively, Minitruthful, Minipeaceful, and
Minilovely, simply because -trueful, -paxful, and -loveful were
sliightly awkward to pronounce. In principle, however, all B words could
inflect, and all inflected in exactly the same way.

Some of the B words had highly subtilized meanings, barely intelligible
to anyone who had not mastered the language as a whole. Consider, for
example, such a typical sentence from a Times leading article as
Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc. The shortest rendering that one could
make of this in Oldspeak would be: ?Those whose ideas were formed before
the Revolution cannot have a full emotional understanding of the
principles of English Socialism.? But this is not an adequate
translation. To begin with, in order to grasp the full meaning of the
Newspeak sentence quoted above, one would have to have a clear idea of
what is meant by Ingsoc. And in addition, only a person thoroughly
grounded in Ingsoc could appreciate the full force of the word
bellyfeel, which implied a blind, enthusiastic acceptance difficult to
imagine today; or of the word oldthink, which was inextricably mixed up
with the idea of wi


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