Repetitive references to Marxism and the Soviet linguistics make the case against the English language much less persuasive. The very title of Orwell’s writing, “Politics and the English language”, suggests that the writer cannot be truly objective in his statements. Yet, the fact that his writing is inherently politicized cannot be ignored. Orwell’s concerns are understandable and even acceptable. Still, prose writers cannot betray their mission to make the language more presentable, even if does not have any sense. In Orwell’s view, most of what is currently used in English prose could be readily replaced with simpler words and more comprehensive meanings. The author uses the most interesting pieces of modern English writing which, in his view, are linguistic parodies consisting of long sequences of meaningless words used to make the result more presentable. Dying metaphors, verbal false limbs, meaningless words and pretentious diction have all become the objects of Orwell’s criticism. Orwell is very detailed in his analysis of the English prose’s shortcomings.
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