Hello. First post for Psycholinguistics DMP module right here, right now. Epic, ain't it?

Losing language, disregardless of the scale, would leave us with an emotional base without the adequate pathways for expression. For example, if the word "foresee" was to be removed, we might be able to replace it with the phrase "predict something will happen in the future". However, with the loss of the word "foresee" comes the loss of the word "foresight" and all other branch words. Also gone is the ability to bring across the meaning of the word "foresee" with the same exact meaning.

If we lose the ability to speak a language, this results in the inability to express our thoughts, leading to a reduction in the usage of these unspeakable thought, leading to a restriction and clamping down on thoughts. Language and writing are the clear defining factors that separate the human race from mere animals. If we were to lose the ability to read, to write, and to communicate, we would be different from animals no more. Language is the contributing factor for quick advancement across civilisation, between humans, even within a small community. An orangutan cannot understand the computer because it does not understand the language created by humans for computers. Similarly, humans collaborate and agree to doing things through the implementation of language, leading to advancement of society.

With a lack of language, we cannot get across our ideas and our thoughts easily. This limits advancement and collaboration, and improvement of society would slow down to a standstill before starting to regress. This limits thought process, because as society regresses, our need to think and to use our brain to solve problems PAST the base instincts that are needed for survival is diminished and without practice, thought processes become rusty.\

Thus, seeing the effect of Newspeak being to cut away words that have separate meanings, that have differing connotations, that are open to interpretation, the need to think about language diminshes and causes society as a whole to slow down. Oldspeak, with all its subtleties, nuances, pronunciations, enunciations and pitches, show a range of human emotions, which is of course, very important to humanity.

Newspeak will so. Not. Work. Please. Especially if the removed word is something like "homosexuality". The idea of homosexuality is an inclination, a kind of instinct that in in-bred in homosexuals. As such, even with the removal of this word, the acts and occurences of homosexuals would still continue being as such.

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