Politics and the English Language—a
brief analysis
George Orwell
The
English language is at present in a “bad way”.
Many people feel helpless to do anything about it. The decline of a
language has political and economic causes, and no individual writer is
responsible for the degeneration.
Language becomes “ugly and inaccurate” when
thoughts are foolish. The untidiness of the language makes it easy to have
silly ideas. Orwell says that “the process is reversible”; we have to get rid
of bad language habits and think more clearly.