Politics and the Dirty Language
Common Sense Paper No. 3
Politics and the Dirty Language
George Orwell delivered arguments on how to write well in his classic 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language.” Among his clearer points, Orwell tied the usage of language to politics: “All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. When the general…