"Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examined...
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English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language...
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Language politics is the way language and linguistic differences between peoples are dealt with in the political arena. This could manifest as government...
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Basic English (a backronym for British American Scientific International and Commercial English) is a controlled language based on standard English, but...
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English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants...
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spending." In the 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell discussed the use of loaded language in political discourse: The word Fascism...
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The English Wikipedia is the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on...
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Teaching English as a second (TESL) or foreign language (TEFL) and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) are terms that refer to teaching...
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An English-based creole language (often shortened to English creole) is a creole language for which English was the lexifier, meaning that at the time...
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The English language descends from Old English, the West Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons. Most of its grammar, its core vocabulary and the most common...
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The English language in Europe, as a native language, is mainly spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Outside of these states, it has official status...
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Newspeak (redirect from Oldspeak (Standard English))
essay "Politics and the English Language" (1946) and in "The Principles of Newspeak" appendix to Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Orwell discusses the communication...
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Languages of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages...
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their native language, Arabic 18%, Russian 15%, Yiddish 2%, French 2%, English 2%, Spanish 1.6%, and 10% other languages (including Romanian, and Amharic,...
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century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period. Scholarly opinion varies, but the University...
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Orwellian (category Use British English from August 2014)
political doublespeak is criticized throughout his work, such as in Politics and the English Language. The New York Times has said the term is "the most...
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In his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell criticised the extensive use of "foreign" words in English. Australian composer...
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Linguistic prescription (redirect from English usage)
language variety as purer Politics and the English Language – 1946 essay by George Orwell Traditional grammar – Framework for the description of the structure...
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Old and Middle English. The Old English language started first from the Angle-Jute-Saxon invaders/settlers in the South and Eastern regions, and evolved...
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English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English...
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International English is the concept of using the English language as a global means of communication similar to an international auxiliary language, and often...
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Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" to grammar and the conditions of class and power in millennial American communication. While discussing the difference...
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on the subject, can understand. In 1946, writer George Orwell wrote an essay titled "Politics and the English Language", where he criticized the dangers...
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The following is a list of countries and territories where English is an official language used in citizen interactions with government officials. As of...
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political reasons, or speakers of minority languages may be underreported in favor of a national language. Ethnologue lists the following languages as...
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§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. The English language spoken and written in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects. The language forms...
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The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of "word" and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...
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official language in seven other states and one union territory. Furthermore, English is the sole official language of the Judiciary of India, unless the state...
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France, The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (2001), p. 34. Paula Blank, Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance...
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"Politics and the English Language" decried the pretentious diction, meaninglessness, vagueness, and worn-out idioms of political jargon. In 1979, the...
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