Re Today is English Language Day, Celebrating the Second Most Spoken Language in the World

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: J.M. Porup <jm () porup com>
Date: Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [IP] Today is English Language Day, Celebrating the Second
Most Spoken Language in the World
To: <dave () farber net>
Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>


Dave,

For IP, if you like...

On English Language Day, let us re-read George Orwell's essay, "Politics
and the English Language":

        In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of
        the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in
        India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom
        bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which
        are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with
        the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language
        has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer
cloudy
        vagueness.

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

Politic discourse today is full of such euphemisms, "enhanced
interrogation," "intelligence community," etc.

jmp

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J.M. Porup
www.JMPorup.com


On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:10:19AM -0400, Dave Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: jonathan.spira () accuramediagroup com
> > Date: April 23, 2017 at 10:44:57 AM EDT
> > To: dfarber <dave () farber net>
> > Subject: Today is English Language Day, Celebrating the Second Most
Spoken Language in the World
> > Dave
> >
> > In case you weren't aware,
> >
> > Today is English Language Day, Celebrating the Second Most Spoken
Language in the World
> > http://accura.cc/4kkhkz
> >
> > "Some 25% of the world’s population speaks English to some extent, with
almost 400 million speaking it as their mother tongue and a similar number
speaking it fluently as their second language, thus making it a candidate
for the world’s language, ostensibly an Esperanto for the 21st century.
> > "Indeed, some pundits have predicted that, by 2050, half the world will
be more or less proficient in it.
> > April 23 is English Language …
> > <SNIP>
> >
> >
> > Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Szívélyes
üdvözlet/Cordialement/Cordiali saluti/Saludos/Vänliga hälsningar
> > /s/ Jonathan


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