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Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses George Orwell and John Leo Essays.

A personal peeve is the way people constantly use percentage points to emphasize

their readiness and dedication towards a particular job or area of their lives. We regularly

hear people exclaiming that they were more than ready to give a 100pc to something.

Now this would not be so bad if they had stopped there.

But now we suddenly find that

giving a 100pc is simply not enough. The stakes have risen to 200pc, 1000pc etc. This is

an example of how tired the English language has become. How do you measure

someone’s dedication and commitment to hard work? Is a person who states that he or

she is a thousand times or a 1000pc ready to commit themselves better than someone who

simply states that they would try their best?

Another peeve is the abundance of “like” in the conversation of a teenager. The word

“like” appears not simply as a conjunction in the middle of a sentence but often has the

honor of starting the sentence. So we routinely hear sentences like “Like it was hot so I

went to the pool.” The above examples point to a lazy and slovenly mind, one that

sacrifices clarity for convenience.

George Orwell in his essay “Politics and the English Language” does not consider

slang as particularly offensive. He makes this clear when he states that good writing has

nothing to do with “Americanisms” or with proper use of grammar and syntax. One

pivotal point in his essay is that the meaning must decide the words and not the other way

around.