Tuesday, February 02, 2010

DOUBLE SPEAK

DOUBLE SPEAK

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 squirting out ink.

GEORGE ORWELL

"Politics and the English Language" 1946

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