
Politics and the English Language
Orwell, George http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5394-Politics&EnglishLanguage.htm
Year Published: 1946 Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
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