"Politics and the English Language"

1)In this essay, Orwell suggests that the English language is on the decline because the people who use English are misusing the language. What sort of things does he mention as proof that the English language is in trouble?

A)What Orwell is trying to tell us is that people are not writing how they use to write. What takes over the American language are the use of slangs, people are very stale when they compare an imagery, and pretty much how the person is expressing themselves. Now in days people are writing the way they feel is write. It's really just turning all around, and becoming their own way.



2)Orwell wrote this essay almost 60 years ago. Do you think the English language is in a better or worse condition than when Orwell wrote his essay? Can you think of modern examples of how people misuse language?

A)In my opinion i think the English Language is at its worst. Now in days you hear of people creating their own words, slangs are at its peak, and specially the writing is messy. People are using slangs or the way they talk as proper English and it shouldn't be like that cause is going against the real meaning of english.

Ex- Lol!-awkard-the use of wrong words-Like etc. People use these words to communicate online that they are bringing it to their daily life.


2)What do you think of Orwell’s list of rules to improve your writing?
Orwell wrote the following in the provided excerpt:

Probably it is better to put off using words as long as possible and get one's meaning as clear as one can through pictures and sensations. Afterward one can choose -- not simply accept -- the phrases that will best cover the meaning, and then switch round and decide what impressions one's words are likely to make on another person.

A) What he means is that we should stop using certain words and to look more into it, to comprehend it better. After we have a sense of it we got to actually studied it and analyze it and thats when it would be better to use it. This means that we shouldn't use words that we don't even know what they mean because its only going to hurt us at the end. We should be aware of the word and once we know how to use it properly, that when we should use it.



3)What do you think he means when he suggests that one should focus on “pictures and sensations” before one sits down to put words on the page? Have you ever done this? Does it help you write better?

A)Pictures are in some way better because they help you understand it better. They help you have a common sense of it. Yes, i have done this especially while I'm reading. Whenever Im lost somewhere and there are pictures or sensations i tend to comprehend it because there is a better knowledge to it. By helping me write better, hmm i dont know because pictures are just pictures, do they help me describe more and express more, definately because now it's telling you details, and it makes it better to included it in your writings!