Syme

 February 10, 1984

If the 10th edition of the Newspeak dictionary was plussmall, then the 11th edition will be doubleplussmall. My job is plusgood because the fact I can take out words. I remember making my first Newspeak word with my speakwrite on the first day of my job at the Minitrue. It was a doubleplusgood feeling when I made a word that destroyed three Oldspeak words on my first try. Soon enough by the year 2050, there will be no Oldspeak and it is such a doubleplusgood feeling. The proles would never understand. They use Oldspeak so they will never see how doubleplusgood Newspeak is. They again, not many have Oldthinks anymore. No one is old enough to remember any to begin with. The Minitrue rectified too much to remember what was true and what was not. My comrade, Winston, does that as his job. He can be rather minussmart though. He likes to use Oldspeak to rectify and then translate it to Newspeak.  I can tell he has few goodthinks though. I better stop writing because I think the thinkpol are suspicious of me and may be watching me from the telescreen and I rather not be sent to a joycamp or become an unperson.

Syme