English language VS. Orwell

Orwell has written many essays, books, and so on. The one I am writing about is Orwell’s essay titled Politics and the English Language. His essay was mainly about people say that “we cannot save our English language”, and he argues that the people can, but is is just a unreasonable idea. He also argues that language does develop over time, but he contradicts himself on the second paragraph. He continues to explain that by our sloppy thoughts we have bad English language. Finally concludes that if someone gets rid of the “bad language”, then they are politically smart and a proper English Language speaker. The main idea is to explain that people that think foolishly, cannot speak English properly.

Orwell’s writing is interesting, but the diction he uses and the way he explains his ideas are hard to understand. There is one area in the passage that was confusing for me. It said, “ … it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form and so on indefinitely,”. When i got to this sentence i got confused, i asked myself what is he talking about or in English please. When i read this question i did not know if it had to do with the prompt or was it just a sentence clutter. There was also one sentence that did not connect me to the main point of Orwell. He wrote, “ Out civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse,”. It has has probably have to do with the English language, but does the civilization have to do with anything and when he said must inevitably share in the general collapse, what does he mean by collapse and inevitably share? His two beginning paragraphs did not much connect with the idea.

While rereading the entire passage or trying to figure out what a word means or a sentence means, i came across a contradiction to his two beginning paragraph. It said, “ Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purpose,”. Orwell believes that the English Language is a more of a natural growth, but not used a very day tool. And he contradicts himself at the second paragraph that says, “ It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts,”. Now he explains that with the growth of the language it makes a man’s thoughts are foolish and when it comes to his writing it too becomes foolish. Basically he means that the humans gets influence with the current language style and makes a man’s thoughts and writing bad. When i first read those two sentence it contradicts Orwell’s essay, but i also disagree and agree with him. When Orwell wrote his conclusion sentence for the first paragraph, i agree with him. I agree that language does change during the course of time. Starting in the beginning of time to the twenty first century, the words, grammar and the language change. No one can stop the progress of the changing English language. With the development of the world, there are a lot of things that changes too like, the technology, marriages, and the English Language. In the world there are now many styles of English. There are slang, country, and so on. We can’t control on how we learn the English language, we instantly get influence with our everyday lifestyle. When he wrote the third sentence on his second paragraph it confused me there. Because i though he supports the idea of English language is changing, but it did not. He explains that with growth of English language it makes that mind of humans think and write foolishly. And now i disagree with him because the growth of the English Language does not have to do with the person’s thinking. It is mostly on the the person’s of how he comprehended the language. It depends on how the persons thinks whether he or she can think critical or not. It is is the way their brain function and how fast they get to understand the language. Like i said earlier, we cannot control on how we to speak English language proper, each person has its own interpretations. By him saying that it is make it easier for us to have foolish thoughts, he is portraying that English language development is making the humans speak and write foolishly. In conclusion Orwell’s piece is about the English language is growing and changes in over time and that he does not approve it changing. And how well they could comprehend the idea.