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{ 2008 06 07 }

The Fight for Clarity

With some of the current popular politicians about, there could be no better time to remind everyone of Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”:

If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.

Posted by Charlie on Saturday, June 7, 2008, at 19:03 (@835). Filed under In Passing. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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