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en him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath thedark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! Ostubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two ginscentedtears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it wasall right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished.He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.THE ENDAPPENDIX.The Principles of NewspeakNewspeak was the official language of Oceania andhad been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc,or English Socialism. In the year 1984 there was not as yetanyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of communication,either in speech or writing. The leading articlesin ‘The Times’ were written in it, but this was a TOUR DEFORCE which could only be carried out by a specialist. Itwas expected that Newspeak would have finally supersededOldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) byabout the year 2050. Meanwhile it gained ground steadily,all Party members tending to use Newspeak words andgrammatical constructions more and more in their everydayspeech. The version in use in 1984, and embodied in theNinth and Tenth Editions of the Newspeak Dictionary, wasa provisional one, and contained many superfluous wordsand archaic formations which were due to be suppressedlater. It is with the final, perfected version, as embodied inthe Eleventh Edition of the Dictionary, that we are concernedhere.The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a