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In addition, any word --this again applied in principle to every word in the language --could be negatived by adding the affix un-, or could be strengthened by the affix plus-, or, for still greater emphasis, doubleplus-. Thus, for example, uncold meant “warm”, while pluscold and doublepluscold meant, respectively, “very cold” and “superlatively cold”. It was also possible, as in present-day English, to modify the meaning of almost any word by prepositional affixes such as ante-, post-, up-, down-, etc. By such methods it was found possible to bring about an enormous diminution of vocabulary. Given, for instance, the word good, there was no need for such a word as bad, since the required meaning was equally well --indeed, better --expressed by ungood. All that was necessary, in any case where two words formed a natural pair of opposites, was to decidewhich of them to suppress. Dark, for example, could be replaced by unlight, or light by undark, according to preference.

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