251.英文正文（251）

newspeakwasfoundedontheenglishlanguageaswenowknowit，thoughmanynewspeaksentences，evenwhennotcontainingnewly-createdwords，wouldbebarelyintelligibletoanenglish-speakerofourownday。***newspeakwordsweredividedintothreedistinctclasses，knownastheavocabulary，thebvocabulary（alsocalledcompoundwords），andthecvocabulary。itwillbesimplertodiscusseachclassseparately，butthegrammaticalpeculiaritiesofthelanguagecanbedealtwithinthesectiondevotedtotheavocabulary，sincethesamerulesheldgoodforallthreecategories。

theavocabulary。

theavocabularyconsistedofthewordsneededforthebusinessofeverydaylife—forsuchthingsaseating，drinking，working，puttingonone』sclothes，goingupanddownstairs，ridinginvehicles，gardening，cooking，andthelike。itwascomposedalmostentirelyofwordsthatwealreadypossesswordslikehit，run，dog，tree，sugar，house，field—butincomparisonwiththepresent-dayenglishvocabularytheirnumberwasextremelysmall，whiletheirmeaningswerefarmorerigidlydefined。allambiguitiesandshadesofmeaninghadbeenpurgedoutofthem。sofarasitcouldbeachieved，anewspeakwordofthisclasswassimplyastaccatosoundexpressingoneclearlyunderstoodconcept。itwouldhavebeenquiteimpossibletousetheavocabularyforliterarypurposesorforpoliticalorphilosophicaldiscussion。itwasintendedonlytoexpresssimple，purposivethoughts，usuallyinvolvingconcreteobjectsorphysicalactions。