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George Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'

Word Matters

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Good prose style is much more art than science. It requires humanity's exposure, the kind of general exposure to good writing that you can only get if you read a lot. Warwell writes this in 19 forty six, and he has nothing but contempt and scorn for all political discourse. And yet he's within a couple of years of churchill saying, we shall meet them on the beaches. He's not equipped to help others, right? All he really is doing is listing his peaves. But peter, if those examples that you cite, i think orwell would have given the thumbs up to he would have said, ge, these are godigay, following his rules.

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