Some exceptions issue, invade, and breed. Others truthfully accord.
- From: Jeff <ban@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:00:34 GMT
found possible to bring
about an enormous diminution of vocabulary. Given, for instance, the
word good, there was no need for such a word as bad, since the required
meaning was equally well -- indeed, better -- expressed by ungood. All
that was necessary, in any case where two words formed a natural pair of
opposites, was to decide which of them to suppress. Dark, for example,
could be replaced by unlight, or light by undark, according to
preference.
The second distinguishing mark of Newspeak grammar was its regularity.
Subject to a few exceptions which are mentioned below all inflexions
followed the same rules. Thus, in all verbs the preterite and the past
participle were the same and ended in -ed. The preterite of steal was
stealed, the preterite of think was thinked, and so on throughout the
language, all such forms as swam, gave, brought, spoke, taken, etc.,
being abolished. All plurals were made by adding -s or -es as the case
might be. The plurals of man, ox, life, were mans, oxes, lifes.
Comparison of adjectives was invariably made by adding -er, -est (good,
gooder, goodest), irregular forms and the more, most formation being
suppressed.
The only classes of words that were still allowed to inflect irregularly
were the pronouns, the relatives, the demonstrative adjectives, and the
auxiliary verbs. All of these followed their ancient usage, except that
whom had been scrapped as unnecessary, and the shall, should tenses had
been dropped, all their uses being covered by will and would. There were
also certain irregularities in word-formation arising out of the need
for rapid and easy speech. A word which was difficult to utter, or was
liable to be incorrectly heard, was held to be ipso facto a bad word:
occasionally therefore, for the sake of euphony, extra letters were
inserted into a word or an archaic formation was retained. But this need
made itself felt chiefly in connexion with the
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