No, the “English Tragedy” does not concern the Queen, this is the first fact that must be established. Rather, it is about English, the language itself. George Orwell warned readers of the negative consequences arising from the degrading quality of English, both in 1984 and in his essay "Politics and the English Language". In both writings, Orwell is able to demonstrate the effects that language can have on the thoughts of those who speak it. In 1984, he managed to highlight how the lack of language can limit thought, and ultimately society. In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell demonstrates how English “constructs your sentences for you” (Orwell, 6) and turns language into a meaningless jumble. Although Orwell wrote in the early 1900s, the bad English he wrote about is still relevant today. Dying metaphors, meaningless words and pretentious diction are still used in mainstream media writing despite Orwell's warnings. A dying metaphor is something that has lost its meaning through overuse. Instead of creating a metaphor that fits the point the author is trying to convey, they instead insert a metaphor that is commonly used to the point that it makes almost no sense. According to Orwell, this is bad English because “a writer who stops to think about what he is saying would avoid perverting the original sentence” (3). Examples of the use of dying metaphors can be found in today's media articles. Some of the dying metaphors used in the CNN article "Little Time Left to Lower Global Temperature, UN Says" are "locking ourselves in" and "painting a very different world" (Smith, Miller, 2). The metaphors used make no sense in relation to the article. The phrase “... middle of paper...... Orwell predicted in 1984 that removing the meaning of words would turn people into a more mindless machine than a real person. Despite Orwell's warnings in his dystopian essay and novel, bad English is still used today and could be said to affect English more than during Orwell's lifetime. The consequences are also as he predicted: those who control the language are able to control the thoughts of others. The use of poor English by the media has the effect of making the recipients of information more detached from events and, therefore, more self-centered. The clumsiness and madness imposed by bad English, ultimately degrading thought, politics, culture and society, is what Orwell predicted. It is English tragedy that is ignored, modern thoughts of "English" are not about language but about the Queen of England..