
George Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'
Word Matters
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The Motivation for Sharing an Essay Like This
The essay was written a long time ago now, in 19 forty six it is still something that people are talking about and using in the aid of their own writing. This makes me think about the motivation for writing an essay such as this,. There is a desire among users of the english language to do that better, to become a better writer. And that clearly, or well, thought that he had some important things as a skilled writer. But he generalized his own experts in a way that, as you point out, ammon, was not even an accurate assessment of his own use. Why did he do that? What was he thinking? I don't know why orwell would write this.
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