251.英文正文(251)

251.英文正文(251)

newspeakwasfoundedontheenglishlanguageaswenowknowit,thoughmanynewspeaksentences,evenwhennotcontainingnewly-createdwords,wouldbebarelyintelligibletoanenglish-speakerofourownday。***newspeakwordsweredividedintothreedistinctclasses,knownastheavocabulary,thebvocabulary(alsocalledcompoundwords),andthecvocabulary。itwillbesimplertodiscusseachclassseparately,butthegrammaticalpeculiaritiesofthelanguagecanbedealtwithinthesectiondevotedtotheavocabulary,sincethesamerulesheldgoodforallthreecategories。

theavocabulary。

theavocabularyconsistedofthewordsneededforthebusinessofeverydaylife—forsuchthingsaseating,drinking,working,puttingonone’sclothes,goingupanddownstairs,ridinginvehicles,gardening,cooking,andthelike。itwascomposedalmostentirelyofwordsthatwealreadypossesswordslikehit,run,dog,tree,sugar,house,field—butincomparisonwiththepresent-dayenglishvocabularytheirnumberwasextremelysmall,whiletheirmeaningswerefarmorerigidlydefined。allambiguitiesandshadesofmeaninghadbeenpurgedoutofthem。sofarasitcouldbeachieved,anewspeakwordofthisclasswassimplyastaccatosoundexpressingoneclearlyunderstoodconcept。itwouldhavebeenquiteimpossibletousetheavocabularyforliterarypurposesorforpoliticalorphilosophicaldiscussion。itwasintendedonlytoexpresssimple,purposivethoughts,usuallyinvolvingconcreteobjectsorphysicalactions。

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