'[George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language] is especially relevant today as the more liberal elements of society continue to rewrite the English language to accommodate their personal, and constantly evolving, preferences,' BecketAdams writes.
Politics and the English Language
Though it is tempting to laugh off, say, Cambridge Dictionary's decision to expand its definitions of the words “man” and “woman” to match current liberal orthodoxy, Orwell argued the modern twisting and confusing of the language is often indicative of something far more dangerous. Indeed, he writes, the “decay of language” is connected to “political chaos.”
The addendums are not complementary additions to the original definitions — that is, “an adult male human being,” etc. Rather, they mystify the point. They are circular and imprecise. The addendums diminish the clarity offered by the original definitions. They do nothing by way of offering insight or specificity. They offer inexactitude, confusion — chaos, even, of the kind Orwell warned about.
“Ugly” and “inaccurate” are apt descriptors for certain style choices newsrooms have adopted in recent years, many of which were made in the name of “inclusion” and “intersectionality.”has instructed staffers to avoid using the pronoun “her” when referring to"nations, storms, or ships."This formulation is ugly. It is flat and sterile. It does not convey a simple idea coherently or with any amount of color or imagination.
Nowhere today is this clearer than in the deployment of the — ahem — Orwellian euphemism “gender-affirming medical care,” which refers to the process by which children are prescribed body-altering puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and sexual reconstruction surgeries. Or consider the term “abortion rights,” so ubiquitous and popular within major newsrooms. Abortion is not, in fact, a “right,” though the popular newsroom euphemism suggests otherwise.
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