Unfortunate as it is, English language may have been deteriorating over time. George Orwell's piece explains his argument about the English language going through a decline. I deeply believe that Orwell's use of excerpts extracted from passages did an effective job at showing the audience how language has been deteriorating. Not only did he have a strong argument,  Orwell backed up his argument with multiple examples which displays that this issue with English language is existent. As stated by Orwell, " Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of them. The first is staleness of imagery; the other is lack of precision." Orwell's critiques have a point in the sense that writers have been adding fluff to their words and writing but it only masks the main idea, bringing forth confusion to the readers. Simple and straight-forward words are being replaced in modern writing with long, sophisticated word which only brings vagueness and complications. At the end of the day, these words still mean the same but only one requires more work to decipher which really shouldn't be the purpose of a writing piece for the audience. As Orwell stated, "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." This quote really struck out to me because I heavily support Orwell's standpoint on this. It's like a game of "monkey see, monkey do". A common example that I like to refer back to is internet slang. Internet slang has been very common on social media platforms and it has been embedded to the lives of many people, young or old. That just goes to show that it can spread like a plague. Speaking from prior experience, I am an user of a social media platform called Facebook and I am familiar with using internet slang as well. Not being proud of this but I would become accustomed to using improper language that it might have accidentally slipped in my school work as well. A few times I have had teachers return back papers that I have written and I would see corrections on words such as "gonna" or "cuz". Using these words so often it wasn't even noticeable enough for me to realize that I wrote in an informal manner. Language can deteriorate even if a few group of people are involved because language is spread by imitation. Orwell is very similar to an author, William Zinsser, and his book, On Writing Well. Both these writers share the same view point on the use of cluttering words. Clutter words can cause a reader to drift from the main purpose of a writing piece and it might simply displease a reader from engaging in a certain writing piece. Proudly saying this, reading may most likely be my weakest skill because common writers enjoy using higher level of words which only confuses me as a reader. Overall, Orwell did an efficient job of making his argument straight-forward and concise with precision unlike most of the writers he has placed complaints on.