In this passage George Orwell makes the assertion that amongst the confusion of long literary or political critiques, the writing often becomes meaningless as a result of improper language and jargon. The use of such “meaningless” words allows them to be openly interpreted and often abused in political writing. What one might regard as Democracy, another would describe as Fascism, but neither carries a definition in this instance, but merely a positive or negative connotation. Consequently, these meaningless words often allow the reader to be deceived by the author. Orwell’s Six Rules 1) Do not use metaphors that you are use to reading in other texts.
And so did Mary Ann.” (97). The text also talks about the importance of flow in storytelling by describing how Kiley tended to interrupt the flow of his stories with commentary and questions. Mitchell Sanders told Kiley that “that just breaks the spell. It destroys the magic. What you have to do is trust your own story.
“So much of American society has become sloppy and laissez faire about the mechanics of writing” (Naomi Baron 88). Baron is making a bold statement by saying that, but she is a linguistics professor at American University and has seen a bad impact on student writing. Another statement made was “it reinforces simplistic writing that may be acceptable for conversation but is not so good for critical thinking or analysis” (Cullington 89). Both of these points are very true and definitely affect what the final outcome will be, weather it makes writing worse, or has no affect at
With an abundance of asides, which the whole passage is, and bits of detail that create and amazingly complex set of ideas, Hawthorne manages to successfully conjure his image of Puritan society and how they treat Hester. Without using such circuitous grammar and syntax, Hawthorne might have failed to recreate the formal, deeply psychological Puritan society and ways that the novel attempts. The tones that Hawthorne uses in the paragraph are more so detached, moralizing, impassioned, formal, and skeptical, and he makes it very obvious that he does not care for the Puritan society (The Scarlet Letter - Linguistic
In all of these points of views, the same idea persists, that texting is destroying the English language. He states how John Humphrys compares texters to what Genghis Khan did. He accuses them of “raping the English language. Other sources that Crystal provides, go on to say “it masks dyslexia, poor spelling, and mental laziness.” (pg.335) With the shorthanded writing and abbreviations that are caused by texting; it makes sense that it masks problems people may have, like dyslexia. Overall they believe that texting is a burden to the English language and that it hurts literacy.
The degradation of dialect reveals how it is almost entirely impossible to object to the Party’s core beliefs. Through the protagonist character of Winston Smith, the importance of individualism is advocated through critical thinking. Firstly, the text illustrates how language and power can be used as a mechanism of control by discouraging an individual from expressing their true emotion. The controlled language, Newspeak, was created by the totalitarian state as a tool of power, its sole purpose being to restrict the people’s understanding of the real world. The gradually declining dialect limits the ideas that individuals have the potential of formulating and expressing, promoting a narrowing of thoughts and awareness to their system of control.
It is through these ideas that composers convey the growing complacency of those who receive the truth as the value of truth is diminishing behind the shadow of personal opinion. The subjectivity of the truth is explored in Geoffrey Robertson’s “Oz” as individuals are seen to have differing interpretations of the truth. The multiple versions of the truth make it indefinite and undefined, contributing to the complexity of truth. This is reflected in the slightly different definitions of ‘obscene’ as Judge Argyle “…read to them from the Oxford English Dictionary, which said it meant… ‘indecent’. In law, that is precisely what obscene does not mean”.
Canterbury Tales Political Project: The Doctor for District Judge The tale the doctor chooses to tell is grim, and more than anything, depressing. He changes the theme of the tales from comedy to realism, possibly to show the harsh truth of the world around the pilgrims. The other pilgrims prior to the doctor had told narratives that were unconventional, but still contained some good-naturedness or comical acts. However, this was not the case for the doctor. It was evident that he wanted to pass off the message that the real world is not simply fun and games, and that “shite” happens.
He refers to the tortillas as “language, history, cultural views, and themes of our literature” (Anaya 69). This symbol of tortillas is very effective in his arguments against censorship. He describes how eliminating the “tortillas” takes away from the ethnic value of the writing leaving many authors hardship by conforming to write accepted texts. He then goes on to say how being forced to conform to the accepted principals does not allow people to understand the diversity that is here in their own multicultural country. Before Anaya tells the reader how censorship has affected him, he goes into detail on how it has affected other writers.
Jenee Buchwalder Mrs. Leirssano Seminar Advanced English 1, 2 13 April 2010 The Effects of Media with Character Restrictions on the English Language Text messaging abbreviations tend to have a negative connotation to them, based on irritated English teachers who have witnessed various errors due to them. Nonetheless, there have always been people trying to “up the ante” by taking it a step further. Take IMO, for instance. These words have been transformed into IMHO, IMCO, IMHBCO, and IMNSHO (in my humble/considered/humble but considered/not so humble opinion, respectively) (Txtng 53). David Crystal indicates, “This is a form of language play... [the desire to] outdo what has been done before.” This type of minor changes of words are a prime example of the effects of text messaging media on the English language.