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" A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish,... "
The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention - Página 57
por David W. Orr - 2002 - 247 páginas
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The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

George Orwell - 1956 - 484 páginas
...completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are...language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of...
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The English Language Volume 2 Essays by Linguistics and Men of Letters 1858-1964

348 páginas
...completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are...language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of...
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A Collection Of Essays

George Orwell - 1970 - 324 páginas
...completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are...language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of...
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Peculiar Speech: Preaching to the Baptized

William H. Willimon - 1992 - 140 páginas
...Western intellectuals. Silly things are uttered, to be sure, largely because we have foolish thoughts — "But the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." Orwell complained that "as soon as certain topics are raised [like religion, economics, or politics?l,...
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Counterbalance: Gendered Perspectives on Writing and Language

Carolyn Logan - 1997 - 410 páginas
...completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are...language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of...
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The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write It, how to Deliver it

Richard Dowis - 2000 - 292 páginas
...completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are...makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." Good speakers and writers usually have many, many words at their command. But having them and using...
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Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages

David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 páginas
...completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are...language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. George Orwell, 1946, 'Politics and the English Language',...
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George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940

George Orwell - 2000 - 578 páginas
...completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are...language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of...
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Machiavelli, Marketing, and Management

Phil Harris, Andrew Lock, Patricia Rees - 2000 - 264 páginas
...articles. Modern management writers could take Orwell's (1957) words to heart. He says that language 'becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts...makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts'. View the above in context of the earlier material covered. For Orwell, language consisted increasingly...
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Machiavelli, Marketing, and Management

Phil Harris, Andrew Lock, Patricia Rees - 2000 - 260 páginas
...words to heart. He says that language 'becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are ftxilish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts'. View the above in context of the earlier material covered. For Orwell, language consisted iuereasingly...
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