politics and the English Language.

I had a hard time understanding what I was reading. But I guess that was Orwell’s point. He talked about how the English Language was becoming more and more depleted in intelligence. I can understand why he said this. People are not very good at speaking properly these days and we keep making more and more combined words like aren’t, and didn’t. We have created our own new type of English. Consider the language of texting or Instant Messaging. I can definitely see what he means about that part but I have to disagree with him a little bit. I do believe that our language should change with how we change. This is how English has evolved throughout the years in the first place. No body in today’s day and age would understand say the King James version of the bible written in old English. This is why they keep revising it to make it more understandable to a larger audience. There’s a difference between talking and writing the English Language intelligently and demining it. He talks about how we sometimes use metaphors we might not be completely familiar with. We might not know the real reason behind why it is used the way it is and we may use it in a sentence that won’t make sense to someone who knows what is actually meant by it. This is helpful to remind us how to make our writing more complex yet better explained. Using more words is not always the best way of getting across what we mean. You may be able to find a word that says everything you want it to in a cleaner more concise way. So as we get ready to write our papers we should take the time to make sure we get our ideas perfectly clear to our audience we’re targeting.