The Adoption Of Words In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nearly seventy years after its publication, George Orwell’s “Nineteen eighty-four” endures as a greatly influential novel, responsible for the advent and popularization of many terms and concepts associated with its bleak and totalitarian “Orwellian” world. Orwell’s “Newspeak” stands out as a notably furtive and indirect method of thought control -- a constructed language slowly stripped of all words that could possibly be connected, explicitly or implicitly, to any rebellious or complex thought. The adoption of newspeak into society comes with the elimination of language’s nuance, and subsequently a heavily regulated and unsophisticated mode of thought. But would such a language work in the real world -- does our vocabulary really have that
big of an impact on our own thoughts and behavior? Or do our abstract thoughts and beliefs get silently tossed around in our heads, independent of the language we use?