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Language, like the human race itself is ever changing and evolving to accomplish different things, or rather, the people who use language as a tool to achieve their goals are constantly adapting to appeal to their readers/ listeners.

Take for instance, the language used by journalists and the media to describe or depict war throughout history. Decades ago, before modern media outlets like television had developed war was seen by most people to be heroic and even romantic, thus the language of writers used to describe the events during war-time was very different.
For example, at the end of World War 1 in 1918, a writer for ‘Dunkirk Evening Observer’ (Robert J. Bender – 1918) wrote “At six o’clock this morning the greatest war in world’s history came to an end” with an image on the same page of Marshal Foch, the Commander-In-Chief of the Allied Forces in Europe at the time, and a caption above his picture saying “Commander-In-Chief of the Allied Forces, before whom the once great Kaiser kneels”.
In using dramatic words like “greatest war” and “ once great Kaiser kneels” it is clear that the writer is attempting to appeal to the mentality of the readers at the time, which at the time felt pride in their country during war.

After the events of the Vietnam War from 1959 – 1975 the true face of war had been, in effect, “brought to the peoples living rooms” for the first time in the western world. Despite the best efforts of the American government to galvanize its people in supporting the war by using language like “I want YOU for the U.S Army” (James Montgomery – 1917 –Used extensively during the Vietnam War), the old notion that war was some sort of noble act that ‘turned boys into men’ or ‘bred heroes’ was replaced with clear and vivid images of the suffering and destruction it brought.
After this change in the general public’s understanding of war and the continuing...