"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words." 4

Well, he was close on this one. Newspeak exists, read an e-mail or text message lately?...lol. It just wasn't mandated by the powers that be like Orwell thought it might, it's creation was organic. In the same stroke, he thought Newspeak would be a tool to prevent "heresy" - thought and word contrary to the Party, Contemporary "Newspeak" is slowly killing both written and verbal skills, only in a less obvious but more insidious fashion.