- Jan 2025
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www.orwellfoundation.com www.orwellfoundation.com
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What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is to surrender to them.
Main takeaway
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Look back through this essay, and for certain you will find that I have again and again committed the very faults I am protesting against
Honesty is everything and can be so important to recognize.
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political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
I agree. They often avoid the entire question and say something else. It's like their PR team told them not to answer any questions.
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You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you – even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent – and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.
This reminds me that there is always something to learn and to be open minded.
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The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy. It is easier – even quicker, once you have the habit – to say In my opinion it is not an unjustifiable assumption that than to say I think.
And now it's even easier! People don't even need to use brainpower to create entire essays.
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That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different.
true- Words can be interpreted differently from one person to the next. everyone was raised different, taught different, has different perspectives.
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In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides.
in today's world, we are still seeing this issue. No clear understanding leads to confusion.
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Meaningless words. In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning[2]. Words like romantic, plastic, values, human, dead, sentimental, natural, vitality, as used in art criticism, are strictly meaningless, in the sense that they not only do not point to any discoverable object, but are hardly even expected to do so by the reade
To me, This makes me think that he believes that every piece of writing should have depth and meaning.
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ower and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves
I agree. Even in my day to day life my friends and I use slang and phrases that make no sense. I believe it is from social media and "trends" in media.
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It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
This relates to modern day slang and language that we use.
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Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer
Shifts the focus of the essay. Now talks about political factors changing and affecting the decline.
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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language – so the argument runs – must inevitably share in the general collapse
As our culture grows, our language grows.
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www.chronicle.com www.chronicle.com
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Use AI for brainstorming, or as a tutor, or to improve your writing, he will tell them, but don’t have it do the work for you.
This is a good way to use technology to your advantage while still learning and using critical thinking skills.
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A few didn’t know they had used generative AI because it’s embedded in so many other tools, like Grammarly.
I didn't know grammarly used AI . I don't personally use grammarly but I know so many people who rely on it!
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The lack of guidance and training is of particular concern, experts say, because AI will soon be everywhere.
I love technology, We use it in our everyday lives. AI is still very new and intriguing because we know so little about it! I believe it will be everywhere soon and if we don't learn about what its capable of I can see a place where kids and adults no longer learn and rely on AI.
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It’s her job to ensure students develop basic writing skills, and the noticeable uptick in AI use is impeding those efforts.
People want the easy way out of most things. AI plays a big part in that.
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“I’m grading fake papers instead of playing with my own kids.”
It's sad that this is a reality. We would be just as upset if teachers used AI to grade our assignments so why do we think its okay to use AI to do the assignments.
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