Politics
and the English Language By George Orwell
Most
people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English
language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot
by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is
decadent and our language — so the argument runs — must
inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any
struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism,
like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to
aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that
language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for
our own purposes.
Now,
it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have
political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad
influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become
a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect
in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. 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, but the slovenliness of our
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 bad habits which spread by imitation and which
can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If
one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think
clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so
that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the
exclusive concern of professional writers.
Below is an ngram chart from Google which illustrates just how increasingly popular this insane word, transgender, has become and you, dear reader, are prolly saying this word now.
STOP IT!!!!
Do not let revolutionaries lead you around by your intellectual nose for they are determined to cultivate your mind so that a thousand revolutionary thoughts may bloom there.
O, and Raider Fan just cited this word, transgender, but you can access the ngarm charts and substitute any other revolutionary neologism you find irksome.
The point is, there is no such reality as, transgender; there are but two sexes - male and female.
PERIOD.
So, when it comes to you speaking the language of the revolutionaries;
STOP IT!!!!
Search in Google Books:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=transgender&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctransgender%3B%2Cc0