OLDSPEAK in Classic Quotes

1  Even when you write it you're still thinking in Oldspeak.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

2  When Oldspeak had been once and for all superseded, the last link with the past would have been severed.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX

3  In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

4  One could, in fact, only use Newspeak for unorthodox purposes by illegitimately translating some of the words back into Oldspeak.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX

5  For example, ALL MANS ARE EQUAL was a possible Newspeak sentence, but only in the same sense in which ALL MEN ARE REDHAIRED is a possible Oldspeak sentence.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX

6  In some cases they could be translated into Oldspeak, or even into words taken from the A vocabulary, but this usually demanded a long paraphrase and always involved the loss of certain overtones.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX

7  History had already been rewritten, but fragments of the literature of the past survived here and there, imperfectly censored, and so long as one retained one's knowledge of Oldspeak it was possible to read them.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX

8  It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought--that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc--should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX