Pergatorio
14-10-2003, 02:10
Anchorman: Today in Pergatorio, a new language has been utilized to cover all affairs taken within the nation. The language has been christened Newspeak. The purpose of Newspeak is to cancel out the concepts of unorthodoxy; that is, to eliminate all possibility of conceiving or omitting an unorthodox or politically incorrect (by Pergatorian standards) statement, concept, or idea.
Linguists inside Veridas have been laboring excessively to develop this language, inspired originally by a novel written by the English author Eric Blair. The origination of the language comes from the book on 1984. Orwell outlined the basic fundamentals of this language, but left it unimplemented. Pergatorians have begun to implement and give birth to the once fake language.
Newspeak is amazing in which, compared to other languages, the vocabulary grows smaller instead of larger each year that it is developed. To decrease the quantities of words, excessive synonyms as seen in the examples of good, bad, evil, and heavenly, have been eliminated. Instead, one basic root word, for example, good, remains and can be altered by a prefix, forming words like plusgood, doubleplusgood, ungood, and so forth.
More is expected to be released by officials later... And now back to your scheduled programming: "A n00b with 392834564362625 nooks: A story of a man and his dream."
Pergatorio
14-10-2003, 02:38
Anchorman: We've received some updates on the principles of Newspeak. Apparently, it will consist of three vocabularies: the A vocabulary, the B vocabulary, and the C vocabulary. We have a live satellite feed for information regarding the A vocabulary at this very moment...
*The screen changes to a man at a podium during a press conference*
Reporter: Mr. Smith, what exactly is the difference in the vocabularies?
Smith: At present I can only release information on the A vocabulary.
The A vocabulary consists of words needed for business and everyday life: things like eating, drinking, working, putting on one's clothes, going up and down stairs, riding in behicles, gardening and cooking, and the like. It's composed almost entirely of words we already possess, words like hit, run, dog, tree, sugar, house, field. But in comparison with the present-day English vocabulary, the number is extremely small, and the meanings very rigidly defined. All ambiguities and shades of the meaning have been purged. In essence: it is a staccato sound expressing only ONE meaning. It will be quite impossible to use the A vocabulary for any form of literary, political, or philosophical discussion. It's only intended to express simple, concrete thoughts usually involving concrete orbjects or physical actions.
The grammar has two peculiarities. The first is that these words have an almost complete interchangeability between parts of speech. Every word in the language, even abstract ones as if or when, could be used either as verb, noun, adjective, or adverb. Between the verb and the noun form of the same root, there is never a variation. The word thought does not exist. Its place is taken by think, which does duty for both noun and verb. No etymological principle is involved here; in some cases, it was the original noun that is chosen for retention, in other cases, verb. Even where and verb are of kindred meaning are not etymologically connected, one or the other of them is frequently suppressed.There is, for example, no such word as cut, its meaning being covered by the noun-verb knife. Adjestices are formed by the suffix of -ful, adverbs by wise. Thus, speedful meant "rapid" and speedwise meant "quickly". Certain of our present-day adjectives, such as good, strong, big, black, soft, are retained, but the total number of these is very small. There is little need for them, since any adjectival meaning can be arrived at by adding ful to a noun-verb. None of the now existing adverbs are retained, except for a very few already ending in wise; the wise termination was invariable. The word well, for example, is replaced with goodwise.
In addition, any word - again applied in principle of every word in the language, could be negatived by adding the prefix of un, or could be strengthened by the prefix of plus, or, for greater emphasis doubleplus. Thus, for example, uncold means warm, while pluscold and doublepluscold mean very cold and extremely cold. It is also possible, as in present-day English, to modify the meaning of almost any word by prepositional affixes such as ante, post, up, down, etc. By such methods, it is possible to bring about an enormous diminution of vocabulary. Given, for instance, the word good, there is no need for such a word as bad, since the expressed meaning is equally well, if indeed better, expressed by ungood. All that is necessary in any case where two words formed natural opposutes was to decide which to eliminate. Dark, for example, could be replaced by light, or vice versa.
The second distinguishable mark is its regularity. Subject to a few exceptions, all inflections follow the same rules. All the verbs that preterie and the past participle are the same and ended in ed. The preterite of steal is stealed, the preterite of think is thinked, and so on throughout the language. All forms such as swam, gavem brought, spoke, taken, etc., are abolished. All plurals are made by adding s or es to the end of a word. Therefore, men becomes mans, oxen become oxes, etc. Comparison adjectives are invariably made by adding er and est (good, gooder, goodest). Irregular forms and more, most formation being suppressed.
The only class of words that still inflect irregularly are the pronouns, the relatives, the demonstrative adjectives, and the auxillary verbs. All of them follow standard usage except for whom has been dropped, along with shall and should, both of which have been covered by will and would. There are also certain irregularities that arise out of the need for rapid and easy speech. A word which is diffcult to utter or able to be incorrectly heard was considered a bad word in the linguists department, and changed. Extra letters were inserted or an archaic form stayed.
That is all for the A vocabulary...
*Returns to the studio*
Anchorman: And now for your standard programming, "A n00b with 392834564362625 nooks: A story of a man and his dream."