2.) How is the piece structured? Orwell structured this as a critique and persuasive essay, clearly stating his opinion, supports it with evidence, and creates a solution. The thesis is located within the middle of the second paragraph as he declares “It becomes ugly…concern of professional writers.” His tone is rather frustrated throughout this piece as he points out the “sheer incompetence” of writers as well as analytical as he criticizes other pieces of work and describes their many faults. He uses apposition to emphasize that “Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation” as well as several other schemes such as chiasmus to convey the connection that if “thoughts corrupt language, language can also corrupt thought” along with antithesis to criticize how “political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.” This piece is satirical because he ridicules our society and its usage of “modern English” illustrating the various “mental vices from which we now suffer” and continues to point out our “sheer
Brenda Chow breaks the first rule by using many worn out metaphors and similes; Brenda Chow neglects to follow Orwell’s second rule with very poor word choice and delivery; She violates the third rule by being very wordy in her essay, leading to a more confusing and deceptive essay. It’s important for us to recognize the misuse of language so that we do not walk the same path. The best thing Brenda can do to help improve her writing and use of language would be to simplify and be more specific with her diction. Brenda Chow is guilty of using many flat and overused metaphors and similes that have almost lost all of their original meaning. For example Brenda Chow writes “The radio plays old Springsteen, and suddenly there is a lightning flash, a sudden “eureka!”, and the light bulb pulsates urgently over my head; a phrase pops into my mind” (Chow 1) or “It is a diamond in the rough”(Chow 1).
Social attitudes towards texting are sometimes quite negative, for example, John Humphrys believes that the English language is being damaged by the multi modal talk hence the title ‘I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language’ and that the younger audience has been influenced to use more slang and vague words such as ‘like’. In this case Humphrys believe that because teenagers are using brevity and non-standard English it is ruining their language. John Humphrys is a clear example of traditionalists this means he is against the forms of texts and you can learn that Standard English is his only preference. ‘a good dictionary is a fine thing’,
The Intro of the essay asserts the notion that the English language has been disfigured by the human race and is on the residual decline as a resultant. Mr. Orwell attributes this downfall to politics and economic causes but goes on to outline his remedy to correct what he refers to as a “reversible” process. George Orwell goes on to cite passages from several prominent essays and articles, concluding on the similarities in their staleness of imagery and lack of precision. He criticizes the passages, stating that the incompetence and vagueness of such political writings desecrates correct English prose- construction. DYING METAPHORS.
This is just one way text messaging is negatively impacting society. It is not surprising to see grammatical errors while messaging. Texters today use timesavers and acronyms on a regular basis, testing this group’s obvious laziness. These shortcuts cause people to become illiterate. In the article “The Disadvantages Texting Has Brought Upon Society”, by Rob Hausler, he states, “Not only are
Written vs Spoken language There are many differences that can be noted between written and spoken language. Sometimes speaking in a way that things would normally be written, or writing in a way that people speak can lead to language sounding strange, unnatural or inappropriate. When speaking people tend to include contractions such as I’ll or don’t that tend not to be appropriate in formal written language. There are also many slang words that are popped into spoken language, that depending on the context are not strictly correct in written language. There are other language conventions that are constantly broken in spoken language, which are more strictly adhered to in written language.
Abstract John Humphrys’ article “I h8 txt msgs; How Texting is wrecking our language” is a cynical piece about how texting is bad for the English language. He believes that English will deteriorate into acronyms and a mnemonic system. He starts off with explaining his love for the dictionary. Each use of a dictionary leads to enlightenment, according to Humphrys. The newest edition of oxford English dictionary came out; to humphrys’ humor, the new edition “has removed the hyphen from no fewer than 16,000 words.” The fact the hyphen has been removes isn’t what gets to Humphrys, but what he believes to be the reasoning is what shocks him.
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.
Your infinite negative description of a false justification of the beggars that are homeless in Britain is unnecessary, and the way you have set your article using your opinions manipulating readers and acting as if your thoughts are facts is absolutely disgusting. I have realised you truly hate them and I don't know why, but how could the reason of one man make you feel the same way towards thousands of people? When you give money to give a beggar you don't know where the money is going, yes it could be used for drugs or alcohol but we must assume it is not going towards those things, we must simply assume that they are a not going towards those things, we must simply assume that they are a human being and they need help that's why they are on the streets in the cold begging is not a career or a profession chosen by anyone with a choice. They are simply doing it because they are in need and there is no choice. Beggars are human beings and they have experience a bit of bad luck in life.
Collocation has been also recognized as something that translator needs to be aware of. However, it has been thought to be something arbitrary, difficult to describe and difficult to pin down. Translators most probably have various problems in translating since it is not an easy task at all. There could be loss of meanings due to a number of factors such as; social, cultural differences and lexical and grammatical invarities of two different languages. One of the most inevitable sources of loss is the fact that every language has different lexical and grammatical systems.