"Politics and the English Language"

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This paper examines how George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" talks about the errors that many writers commit in using modern English which are caused by the bad habits of writers and then passed to other writers and accepted as a form of modern English. It looks at how Orwell states the four errors that writers generally make namely the dying metaphors, operator or verbal false limbs, pretentious diction and meaningless words. In particular, it discusses how in Machiavelli's "The Prince," the writer commits these four errors.

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"In dying metaphors, metaphors are created to describe a visual image of the writer; however writers use "technically dead" metaphors in their writing to save them time from inventing the metaphors themselves. Writers use such metaphors without the writers knowing what those stand for such as ring the changes on, take up the cudgel for, toe the line, ride roughshod over and etc. (Orwell, 1946). In Machiavelli's work "The Prince," it provides likewise errors in the use of the English language as stated by Orwell. "

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