Language misuse and fallacies of language are things that are often found throughout everyday written language today. People like to try and make their writing sound more interesting by filling it up with lots of clutter, lots of fallacies and by not following Orwell's rules of good writing. Writing is a form of expression and should be used to its potential and should inevitably make some sort of impact on the writer. The majority of people misuse language regularly and it is affecting our ability to understand what the true meaning of language really is.
             Some excellent fallacies of thinking can be found in the article "A long hard look at Conservatives" which was published in the Toronto Star on February 29 2004. Throughout the article you can find many examples of overgeneralizations, meaningless words, and also false causes. Some of the examples from the article that would be an example of an overgeneralization would be when the author writes that it would be a radical change to Canada if the Conservatives won the federal election. If the conservatives do win the election it doesn't mean that there will be a "radical" change to Canada but there could be some sort of change. Whether it may be beneficial or not is unknown. An example of a baseless conclusion is, "Washington says another country needs to be invaded, as was Iraq"(Appendix A). How do they know that another country needs to be invaded just to make things better? They don't know that invading countries are the right thing to do. Another fallacy of thinking that appears quite often throughout this piece is false cause. This is when you assume that something will happen because of what happened before it. Some examples of false causes that appear throughout this article are, "They also want to pay off the national debt, so that cash will come from somewhere – probably more spending cuts." They are assuming tha...