George Orwell

What George Orwell is trying to say in his article is that we are making the english language ugly, by our misuse of it. By trying to use big vocabulary words to impress other people we butcher the english language, because we are not using these vocabulary words in the right context. Orwell says that we need to just use simple words to get our point across and stop trying to look impressive, or confusing to our readers. I think that Orwell would still agree with his statements today because we butcher our own language more today than we did in his time. Orwell talks about how politicians are "the defense of the indefensible." They use big words to sound more powerful to voters, and constituents but they really have no idea what they are saying because they have someone else write all of their speeches for them. How can they defend us when they can't even defend themselves?

I would have to agree with everything that Orwell says because people today think they can throw a couple of big vocabulary words into a paper and that will magically make it a good paper. The truth is that people just look more ignorant when they throw in vocabulary words because they usually aren't used correctly. People now a days mix up simple grammar errors because they are so used to typing in an instant message, or a text message, or on Facebook or Twitter, and when they do this they use the fastest spelling of a word and not the correct use. Orwell would probably be even more disappointed in the use of our language today because it is misused so commonly.