Kristen Kuchay's Response to Politics and the English Language

George Orwell writes somewhat in a confusing manor, but I think that shows his point for the entire reading. Orwell speaks about society as a whole effecting the English language and how one person can start a "trend" and then others follow and so on and so on. Writing intelligently has become scarce in today's world. Many people write words such as "omg" and "ttyl" instead of writing out each word correctly like one is supposed to do. They call this the "texting generation," where everyone not only talks like this in texting but also on papers and assignments to the point where teachers even have to tell their students to write correctly and do not use texting language. For example, my psychology teacher always puts in her assignments to write in the proper English manor and not like we are texting our friends. Because writing in anything besides the correct English form is going on, society's intelligence as a whole is decreasing. If someone were to read an old passage from the 18th century, many people would not understand what is being said or why they wrote so "proper" and if it was even necessary. This is Orwell's point. Over time, people's writing starting changing for the worse and it started to catch on to everyone to the point where there are only rare cases where you see a person write properly. It's even odd when you see a student taking an English class write properly with good intellect, but then see how they talk and write outside of the classroom and they refer back to the "new" way of talking and writing. Clearly society can still write this way but choose not to because shortening words and sentences without proper English does not take as much time as writing in correct form. Even in some cases where people do not know how to write properly, they try throwing words in there that have to relevance to the topic or are simply meaningless. As a whole, we need to encourage the use of proper English writing in every classroom, not just English or writing class. I believe if we can start this "old trend" back up, within time people will start writing and speaking with proper English again. If we can get to this point of improper use of the English Language, then I believe we can get back to where we were before this happened.