Chapter 5

As I was reading chapter 5, I found something that caught my eye and I thought about it and it was right. In chapter 5, Syme talks about the dictionary and what kind of words are in it, and how small it will get when life goes on. In the book, they speak "Newspeak" and for them they take something and shorten it as much as it can go, so it makes it easy for five year olds to understand. The piece of text that talks about words and how they are can be found on page 51. As Syme is talking about it he's taking a bite of his bread and swallowed it in mouthfuls. Here is the text that I found so interesting and/or important: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms." I found this important and interesting because every word in the dictionary has a synonym and a antonym, or many. It's important to have those though because it gives you different words to use when you are speaking, or writing a paper. Now some words we speak and are found in the dictionary of course and some of them are adjectives, verbs, nouns, adverbs, and etc. Words are labeled like that so we know how to use the words whenever we are writing or speaking.