About the way language had progressed...

I had a great Chinese New Year, thank you very much...
Of course, this once again does not apply to the people who wished i suffered a very bad chinese new year (the same group of people who can't wait to see me having bad luck)

We had a rather eventful english lessons today... and yes, the following post is also on the class blog, cause i decided that it was an important enough topic for me to remember even after this whole year is over...

Anyway, I was thinking about the method to recover ourselves after failing, and than the one about abolishing the word "Failure" came to mind...
Frankly, that thought alone boggles my mind...

Ya, sure, we all know that we should abolish this word from our vocabulary so that we can improve ourselves... I mean, you see it thousands of times in self-improvement books. Stop thinking about words like bad, stupid, moron... and the list goes on frankly speaking...

But have you ever thought why some person out there wants to create the word in the first place...? I mean, create a word to make yourself feel depress and dejected, to feel inferior and forsaken...

Have you ever thought about the society and the language featured in 1984?
In 1984, the book written by George Orwell, the language used there is Newspeak, a sort of deriative of english, where its vocabulary is getting smaller and smaller, contradictory of most languages in the world...
For example, words like excellent and great and awesome can be simply replaced by the word good, want to add some excalmation to that? than use doublegood, or just doubleplusgood...
and to add badness to it, well there is always ungood, doubleungood and also doubleplusungood...

So are we limiting our language...?

But you got to be really glad someone created those words, if not, we would be living in the society depicted in 1984, and i am sure that none of you wants to live in that kind of society...


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