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He has waked... He has awoke... He will awaken... He will wake...

I just don't get it? Why are there diferent words that can be used in the same place and mean the same things? Am I doing something wrong? I'm so befudled...

Yes. The English language insists on being irritatingly complicated and having a hundred different words and phrases that all inevitably mean the same thing.

Basic principles of Newspeak

To remove synonyms
The basic idea behind Newspeak was to remove all shades of meaning from language, leaving simple dichotomies (pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness, good thoughts and thoughtcrimes) which reinforce the total dominance of the State. Similarly, Newspeak root words served as both nouns and verbs, which allowed further reduction in the total number of words; for example, "think" served as both noun and verb, so the word "thought" was unneeded and could be abolished. A staccato rhythm of short syllables was also a goal, further reducing the need for deep thinking about language. (See duckspeak.) Successful Newspeak meant that there would be fewer and fewer words -- dictionaries would get thinner and thinner.

In addition, words with opposite meanings were removed as redundant, so "bad" became "ungood." Words with comparative and superlative meanings were also simplified, so "better" became "gooder", and "best" likewise became "goodest". Intensifiers could be added, so "great" became "plusgood", and "excellent" or "splendid" likewise became "doubleplusgood." Adjectives were formed by adding the suffix "-ful" to a root word (e.g. "goodthinkful", orthodox in thought), and adverbs by adding "-wise" ("goodthinkwise", in an orthodox manner). In this manner, as many words as possible were removed from the language. The ultimate aim of Newspeak was to reduce even the dichotomies to a single word that was a "yes" of some sort: an obedient word with which everyone answered affirmatively to what was asked of them.

I've been advocating the benefits of newspeak for a long time. I mean why call someone loquacious when you could just call them double-plus-wordy.

Hate synonyms? Here's why newspeak is for you:



See, all that complexity and depth of meaning is gone with newspeak. Just, please, for the sake of everyone, don't pay any attention to the fact that the other aim of newspeak is to control and prevent thought. Let us worry about that.

The alarm clock woke him up. He was awakened by the alarm clock. The alarm clock will wake him up. The alarm clock will awaken. I believe all of these are acceptable.


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This is a properly formatted sentence. The first letter of a sentence is ALWAYS capitalized. A sentence always ends in a punctuation mark, usually a period, but sometimes a question mark or exclamation point. Punctuation such as the comma, the colon and the semicolon are used as sentence pausers. Never should a sentence end with one of these.