Why is the ruthless totalitarian regime, described in Orwell’s novel purging Oldspeak and imposing Newspeak? What assumptions are being made about the relationship between language and thought?
He wants to get rid of all 'useless' words such as synonyms, antonyms or any words that are not necessary to still have a communicative language. words such as bad can be replaced with ungood and excellent can be replaced with plusgood, therefore using the same word and reducing the amount of words in the language. He says that the less words in a language, the less people are going to think and thinking in his mind is not needed.
Almost there. You need to develop the ideas of your last sentence.
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