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taraczkozi claudia · Plunger Data inscrierii: 18/Mai/2008 Mesaje: 33

what is the role of the new language which was imposed and what could suggest the names of the institutions?

POP CRISTINA · Trimis: 22/05/2008 16:55 Titlul subiectului:

The names of the institutions are meaningfull but are emthy of substance. For example Winston works at Ministry of Truth but he alters historical records to fit the needs of the Party.So the truth is omited.
Also at the Ministry of Love people are physical and psychological tortured and brainwashed.Once again the love is neglected.

dana_achim · Plunger Data inscrierii: 11/Apr/2008 Mesaje: 26

I guess that the idea of imposing to take out words from the language it was a smart point from the "Big Brother". I could give a very simple example. Try to think about something (doesn't matter about what) and use just 50 words... It is pretty hard, isn't it?... When you have many words you can use your imagination and everything you want to develope and enlarge a subject as much as you want. Forcing those people to use just a few words, they immediately couldn't even think. They became as robots, and this way they could be controled very easy.

Laura Cornea · Trimis: 29/05/2008 17:49 Titlul subiectului:

Indeed, in order to think and formulate opinions one needs words. So I also think that Big Brother made a smart move by reducing the number of words. (You know, perhaps people might learn to think in images...)
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claudia solomes · Plunger Data inscrierii: 08/Mai/2008 Mesaje: 40

The Party decreased the vocabular of the language,and introduced new words ,which could have much more meanings,first because as Dana said, this was a way to handle people minds easyer and secondly because everytime when Big Brother made a wrong prediction or something the meaning of the words was changed or they gived a new meaning so as Big Brother is allways right.They could reinterpret what Big Brother said once...