Newspeak continued

All right, time to consider newspeak. Unfortunately the flash of insight I had into newspeak came while listening to Alberto Manguel's 2007 Massey Lectures being replayed on Ideas, so not only was it well past nine at night but it was also 12 days ago. In my last post I talked about how Winston is unable to communicate the ideas he has because of fear, newspeak will eliminate the need to maintain that fear in order to stop communication. If there are no words for rebellion, no concept of rebellion, there will be no rebellion. Newspeak is chillingly ingenious. It is also most conducive to doublethink, twisting as it does, language in such a way as to distort reality. I once read a book by Ursula K. LeGuin (it was A Wizard of Earthsea, most worth it despite the slightly dubious title) in which she talks about language being used so that falsehoods sound true, the exact words were "it is their own language and they can lie in it, twisting the true words to false ends. Catching the unwary hearer in a maze of mirror words, each of which reflects the truth and none of which lead anywhere." (punctuation is my own, I am working from audio memory). Of course with newspeak the words were never true in the first place. Oh sure they are innocuous enough, words like: hit, run, dog, tree, sugar, house, field; but these words are corrupted so as to lose any meaning beyond the concrete. If a person does not have words to describe an experience they are unable to remember that experience, this is supported fact. Thus, with full implementation of newspeak, the people of Oceania will be unable to think, let alone communicate beyond that which the Party deems it appropriate for them to be able to conceive of. Let alone rebel.