• "If Thought Corrupt Language, Language Can Corrupt Thought", This Is a Statement from an Essay "Politics and the English Language" Written by George Orwell

     

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Publicēts: 03.01.2003.
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This is a statement from the "Politics and the English language" written by George Orwell. He says, " A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation". The whole essay is mocking other writers on their language usage. He claims that the language is not used to its full extent. People use words the size of continents and in the end those big words say the same thing as a three-letter word. Those people also end up confusing them selves in the end.
I do believe that language is changed by thought. After all it is the mind that is the one that thinks of the sentences and it's thought that may corrupt the language. After all language does not write it self on a paper. The mind can basically create any thing with language. …

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