The C vocabulary was supplementary to the others


AND
CONSISTED ENTIRELY
OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL TERMS.

THESE RESEMBLED THE SCIENTIFIC TERMS IN USE TODAY,
AND WERE CONSTRUCTED FROM THE SAME ROOTS, BUT THE USUAL CARE
WAS TAKEN TO DEFINE THEM RIGIDLY AND STRIP THEM OF UNDESIRABLE MEANINGS.

THEY FOLLOWED THE SAME GRAMMATICAL RULES AS THE WORDS IN THE OTHER TWO VOCABULARIES.
VERY FEW OF THE C WORDS HAD ANY CURRENCY EITHER IN EVERYDAY SPEECH OR IN POLITICAL SPEECH.
ANY SCIENTIFIC WORKER OR TECHNICIAN COULD FIND ALL THE WORDS HE NEEDED
IN THE LIST DEVOTED TO HIS OWN SPECIALTY, BUT HE SELDOM
HAD MORE THAN A SMATTERING
OF THE WORDS OCCURRING
IN THE OTHER LISTS.

ONLY A FEW WORDS
WERE COMMON TO ALL LISTS,
AND THERE WAS NO VOCABULARY EXPRESSING THE FUNCTION OF SCIENCE
AS A HABIT OF MIND, OR A METHOD OF THOUGHT,
IRRESPECTIVE OF ITS PARTICULAR BRANCHES.

THERE WAS,
INDEED, NO
WORD FOR "SCIENCE",
ANY MEANING THAT IT COULD
POSSIBLY BEAR BEING ALREADY
SUFFICIENTLY COVERED BY
THE WORD
INGSOC.
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