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the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civktion is decadent, and our language-so the argument runs-must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows ' that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental
Politics and the English Language Lyrics. Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by ...
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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a ...
POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 255 his words mean anythmg or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing. As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the
Politics and the English Language. Paperback – 11 February 2013. 'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's reals and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
- Orwell George
