All throughout history, it has been shown that society dictates who is educated and who isn't. Those who speak using proper English (i.e. proper grammar, correct sentence structure, larger words), are more educated than those who do not speak properly. This is because throughout the ages, those who were a part of the upper class, namely the aristocrats and the wealthy, were the ones who had control of the country and they were the ones who made the rules.
In the book 1984, the government controls the way people speak by using Newspeak. In this new "language", regular sentences are dumbed down to the most vague of levels. The reason for this is that the government in 1984 feel that if they control the language of the average joe, then they can control how they think. By controlling the way that the people think, the average Joe will have no choice but to just do as they are told.
Translating my article into Newspeak made it less reading but it also made me feel as if I needed to write more. Just writing one sentence that was dumbed down made me not actually want to read the rest of the article. I felt that there was no point. I think that this is what the government in the book 1984 was trying to accomplish.
Nice work. I agree with you, newspeak is used to dumb down the information so that people don't know all of the information. On the other hand i believe that there is no way to dictate who is educated, people can always find a way to become educated it is all a matter of desire to learn and be educated. Keep up the good work.
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