Orwell on the English Language, Part 1 of 5
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Uploaded by ColinMichaelSmith on Aug 22, 2010
"...A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts..."
"...The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not..."
"...The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink..."
- George Orwell, 1946
Tags: George Orwell, Politics and the English language, 1984
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@lastwavefilm Its Isaac Asimov meets George Orwell.
DevilinDeep 3 months ago
Robot reading of Politics and the English Language. Brilliant!
lastwavefilm 9 months ago
What a horrible reading. Ugh
833P 1 year ago