Will Newspeak work in curbing unwanted views?

No, i do not believe that enforcing a new language among the people will work in curbing unwanted views. The main premise of my argument is that language does not affect thought, rather thought affects language. Thus, changing language will not lead to a change in a person's mindset and thoughts.

Newspeak refers to the "language of the new world", where there is a lack of synonyms and language is direct. The government can actually manipulate Newspeak such that certain words that were previously in the English Dictionary are removed. For example, the government may want to remove the word "revolution" from the dictionary in the hopes that the people would not know what a revolution was and leave the government with power. However, I feel that this is not feasible.

I believe that there is a language of the mind that is unique to each person. Just as the brain transmits signals to the human body to determine its actions, this language of the mind determines how a person acts. If the person's language of the mind decides to have views that are considered "unwanted" by a group or the government, then the person will reflect those unwanted views.

Newspeak is merely grazing the surface of language. It only affects the language that we use in our inter-personal communications and not the mind language that influences our internal thought. Changing the playing field where people interact with each other will definitely not lead to the removal of a person's views.

While a loss in verbal language would indeed result in the loss of ability to express something, the raw emotions would not be lost. In fact, if needed, the people would come up with their secret code- a secret language if you will- to communicate their ideas. Newspeak is and will not be the only mode of communication.

As Newspeak cannot influence the people's thoughts, it cannot leave any significant impact on a person's thinking. Thus, Newspeak will not work in curbing unwanted views.