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George Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'

Word Matters

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How to Write Letters?

If you remove politics from this essay, i find it hard to distinguish it from strunkan white. I can't help but quote our friend jeffrey pollham, the great grammarian who refers to strunken white as a toxic little compendium of nonsenseys. So read more. Read writer as you like, is the way to go about it. There's so much beautiful language around us that i think we're really doing ourselves the diservice not to mention the people who have to listen to us. It's easier to point out the ugliness than it is to quote the sublime.

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