Wilf Popoff
November 1, 2016 by Wilf Popoff | 2 Comments on Wasted Words: Channelling Orwell
“Insincerity,” says George Orwell in his classic commentary of 70 years ago, is the “great enemy of clear language.” Political discourse is “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable…” For Orwell, insincerity was more a result of lazy writing than a deliberate attempt to conceal the truth: “…if thought corrupts language, language can […]
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