Wilson was given instructions on what to do for his rewrite,
"times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusgood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise unsub antefiling.
In Oldspeak (or standard English) this might be rendered:
The reporting of Big Brother's Order for the Day in the Times of December 3rd 1983 is extremely unsatisfactory and makes references to nonexistent persons. Rewrite it in full and submit your draft to higher authority before filing." (Orwell, 40).Wilsons coworker, Syme, said that Oceania was the only language in the world that got smaller every year (Orwell, 46). I can understand using double speak to make things sound better than they are but I don't understand why they get rid of most of the language. They take out a word when double and un can be used, but what's the point of shortening Big Brother to bb? When I was reading the Newspeak words I could pick out what went where (after reading the translated version). Something I noticed was that the structure of the sentence was different. If they went in the same order shouldn't it go something like this
"times reporting bb doubleplus dayorder 3.18.83 refs unpersons rewirte fullwise unsub antefiling."Double speak can actually be really useful in life. I would rather someone tell me that I'm going to the making of a better child room than going to detention. The use of double speak in our language is already a thing, so I think it's only a matter of time before we start using language like they do in 1984. I don't think it will be as drastic but we already use acronyms in every life, it wouldn't be hard to change the language. Do you ever think that we could completely change our language to look like how it does in 1984 or do you think that that's to much of a drastic change? By making the language into a couple simple words, do you think that the Party is brainwashing it's citizens?

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