Promt 2--
In the article "Politics and the English Language" by George Owell in 1946, and these two paragraphs in the prompt show that Owell is upset and mad at those people who are not using English in a right way. For example, people might use it to say some bad words and hurt other people's feelings, or change words' definition, and furthermore, it will change the language culture. At time goes on, Owell expected people will change back to a good way in using English.
Owell tried to prove that not using English in a right way could bring up a big impact of our culture. Because there are many English learners in this country who had just immigrant to here, and that will make they easily get some misunderstandings of vocabularies, and this will be passing from people to people. Here is one of the examples Owell had given to his article "A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be failure, and then fail the more completely because he drinks." Owell uses analogy to express the insult of changing English is like a disease of drinking wine. There is no way to stop it if this problem get worse, so it is like a man who kept drinking and never want to stop. And I think this example is reflecting a lot of things-- a man who fail his life, not only that he kept drinking and drinking, he totally gave up his life and lose confident to do everything. If a person who never struggle or failures in his or her life, how could this person grow up and stay in this society? If the language is going to change, I think the culture and the people's characteristic will also absolutely change, too.
Owell thinks foolish thoughts could always make the language become inaccurate. And then he leads the yopic into an example of writing. He also expresses that an unclear thesis or topic(which he calls "foolish") could easily make the audiences get into the confusions. He calls this kind of language" Modern English", especially writting in English essays. "Modern English, espectially writter English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble." This quote tells me that everything should start at a basic, and built up into avenge. Nothing will start perfectly, and ends up perfect, it just happens like that.
Owell asked the audiences to have their actions to save the language. He clearly explain what will happen to our culture if this problem keep going in a bad way, and we need patient to change. "If one gets ride of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and that is not exclusive concern of professional writers." So here, Owell divides into two parts of the English Writers-- ones are badly changing the language, and ones are professional in writing. Addition to that, he hopes there will be more professional writers in this society who could lead people to speak a right language.
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