Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used toseeing in print.2.Never use a long word where a short one will do.3.If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.4.Never use the passive where you can use the active.5.Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think ofan everyday English equivalent.6.Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous
6 things in order to fix "broken English."
language can also corrupt thought.
Language has been corrupted; non-existence.
All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly,hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.
Context-Circumstance -The English language has become a "political issue" because of the lack of words that are used. Word Diction:"Schizophrenia"= A disorder= schizophrenic is a person that has hallucination. It is used as a negative connotation because the author is saying that speaking broken language has become a long term use in the modern world. -People have become deluded with the broken rules.
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations,the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only byarguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square withthe professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largelyof euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages arebombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattlemachine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is calledpacification
Comparing our English into a revolution. (metaphor). -"Politics"- A form where an individual or government tries to make peace. -The author wants to become pacifies with the English language but he is trying to get rid of the bad habits.
an accumulation of stalephrases chokes him like tea leaves blocking a sink.
-Simile= Comparison between tea leaves and sink. Writers get stuck by their use of words.
egregious
outstanding:bad shocking.
making a public speech — it is natural to fall into a pretentious, Latinized style.
Paper Prompt #1, Question: What role should a person's home language play in a formal education and/or the workplace? Why? -"Making a public speech"- People change their identity in an unusual formal education to sound "smart."
pretentious
Pretentious:"attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed."
t consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already beenset in order by someone else,
People change its historical background in a context.
That is, the person who usesthem has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means somethingquite different.
People have forgotten the language and history of each word.
Fascism
Word Diction- Negative connotation- A type of government; dictatorship, communism. "Something not desirable"- Lost its meaning; it now means something that someone does not desire.
Some metaphors now current have been twisted out oftheir original meaning without those who use them even being aware of the fact.
Structure: The element behind metaphors has been stolen. The reader, or the audience has lost their plot behind the setting of the rhetorical advice.
precision.
precision= the quality, exact, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate. (Authors didn't have a clear meaning).
Above all, we cannot play ducks and drakes with a native battery of idiomswhich prescribes egregious collocations of vocables
Reminds me of what we discussed in class today. We learned that people use big words in order to sound smart and they forget the context behind the sentence.
political regeneration
Word Diction: "Politics"= "the activities, actions, and policies that are used to gain and hold power in a government or to influence a government. 2 : a person's opinions about the management of government. " -Language has become a social norm where everyone is debating against its broken rules.
lies the half-conscious belief thatlanguage is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our ownpurposes.
Language has been evolving behind throughout time. People have forgotten the meaning behind each word.