The word lingua originates from a vernacular Latin word "Lingueticum" which meant "tongue" in the 12th century. From there, the word can be traced back to Old French of the late 13th century, where it had the spelling "Langage". The form we know today as “language” dates back to around 1300 and was used in Anglo-French and Middle English dialects. From there, language came to mean “the system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other.” Language, however, has a deeper effect than one might think on human thoughts and, more importantly, feelings and emotions. For starters, if Language were an element, it would be Oxygen. Oxygen is pervasive in our world and without it our world would be lifeless and most importantly human life could not exist. Language, like oxygen, is vital to the survival of humans as it provides a means of communication to share thoughts with others in our society and our world. Oxygen, if contaminated, becomes harmful to those who depend on it. Likewise, when language is tampered with, it quickly impacts society and damages people's ability to express their thoughts. Similarly, in the novel “1984” written by George Orwell, characters speak a version of English called Newspeak which effectively controls anti-Party speech and serves to limit thinking on a deeper, subconscious level. Furthermore, in the novel “A Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley the same ideals of limitation of human thought are present. Furthermore, these effects are visible in modern times and modern languages. According to the author, language controls the characters' thoughts throughout 1984. For example, most of the characters in 1984 have a vocabulary consisting of only the few words from the Newspeak dictionary. The language of Newspeak contains words that are constantly changed by the Party so that they cannot be used