The English Language- The New Generation

Language is something that the human race can not live without. Without the English language, we would not be able to communicate with each other and we would not have gotten this far into civilization. People take many different forms of the way to speak within their language. The most well-known language used worldwide is the English language. The English language has been abused by many people and it has been adopted by many to be switched up from what it really should be. In George Orwell's speech, "Politics and the English Language," he analyzes the many factors in which the English language has been misused all over the world.

George Orwell's main points about written and spoken English are that humans are the ones who  make the English language seem as he says, "ugly and inaccurate," because we become too careless and lazy with our language and speech. Our language, as George Orwell states, creates foolish thoughts within us. In a sense, our foolish thoughts inhibited by our language can be erased. 

Back to his point, George Orwell states that our English language started on its own and that eventually over time, it developed and grew on its own without any input from the human race. We did not 'shape' our language, but we have supposedly 'damaged' our version of the English language.

I have to disagree with the fact that English developed on its own and that we as a collective race had nothing to do with it. "...the half-conscience belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes." If it was not for us building on to the English language, then there would be no form of communication today. Although we have created the English language, George Orwell does have a point when he says that we have permanently damaged what we now consider to be the English language. George Orwell speaks of the Modern English which can be examined through the lives of everyday teenagers.  

Nowadays, we hear kids speaking in a manner in which people did not use to speak like before. This is an example from Orwell's' speech and how he says  that we have done so much damage to the English language that it is irreversible. We, as teenagers have the most informal language. Teenagers do not care what they say or who they say it to. In a sense, teenagers learn to speak their mind from a very early age and over time, they seem to not put a censor on the things that they speak of. They have a tendency to use foul language or as we know it 'cuss words'. I have met a lot of teenagers who must use as cuss word in every sentence in order for them to speak comfortably. For every two words, there is a cuss word. 

I can speak from experience. I am not so good with censoring my thoughts and covering up every cuss word that gets thrown out of my mouth. It is a bad habit and that is exactly what George Orwell speaks about.

Another example is the way teenagers seem to just make up some words. When I walk down the street, I hear so many people speak without them using the English language properly. People, specifically teenagers, use made up words such as "Bruh", "Dude", "N***a", and so on and so forth.

Also, we have sites such as Urban Dictionary, which transform a normal English word into something completely different. Although it is taken as a joke to many people, it does put a dent in the many years that humans have developed for the English language.

If we were to go back in time, we would see that no one would speak the way we do now. We have changed our language drastically. I wouldn't say that we have destroyed the English language, but we definitely have damaged it in some way.