This article makes a review of the implementation of the language "Newspeak" introduced by George Orwell in his novel: "1984", where he reviews and explains how language is powerful to express meaning, intention and ability. He starts by stating the premise of newspeak: "To limit and deter people from thinking outside what we want them to".
Newspeak is a language that seeks to remove non-needed words, by limiting the availability of descriptive adverbs, nevertheless establishing a basic context of the words. For example: something very good would be "doubleplusgood" (using modifiers to a word, instead of adding more words before the word). If you wanted to express that something is very bad, you would say: it is "doubleplusbad" which is pretty good. It is interesting to note that this systems works similar to some of the Asian cultures, where the context of a word can be changed by intonation, or the prefix attached to a word.
The author delves deeper into an analysis of the methods of control employed by Orwell in his book to control the mind. By it being optional, but easier to use, it is used to limit the thoughts of the people in the Party's control.
We can draw an extended comparison between using more difficult languages and standard languages. (Let's assume for a second that difficult languages are functional programming languages, not just because they are difficult by themselves, but because we are less familiarized with them.) Difficult languages let us express our full arrange of human concepts in the language, just as normal language (for example fractions or infinity). Nevertheless they are more difficult to use, so by having available this easier languages, we make the choice to go for the easier ones, whether we like it or not, as Jem Berkes mentions in his essay.
Berkes, Jem. 2000. Consulted November 9th 2017. Written February 27, 2000; Modified May 9, 2000. http://www.berkes.ca/archive/berkes_1984_language.html