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George Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'

Word Matters

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Orwell's 19 Forty Six Essay

The essay was published in 19 forty six. It is used as kind of a club by many people to day in talking about language. And it is almost never used in the context of political language. People just talk about orwell's views on english, and they don't say this is what he had to say about politicians using language. Is just used as a kind of general thing. To me, one of the main problimce is that orbe seems to have very little idea of how language in general, and english in particular, actually works.

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