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-WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF 1984, NEWSPEAK REPLACED OLDSPEAK ALONG WITH YOUR FREEDOM AND RIGHTS. LINGUISTIC DECADENCE HAS LEAD TO ORWELL’S WORST NIGHTMARE. |
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-Language has been taken over by obfuscation Orwell |
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-George Orwell, 1946 http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ Politics and the English language |
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-"Now, it is ... now habitually written." |
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-Universalizable, hindrance, etc. Orwell |
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-George Orwell, 1946 http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ Politics and the English language |
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-"PRETENTIOUS DICTION. Words ... slovenliness and vagueness." |
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-Your criticism is devoid of actual meaning, it just uses ambiguous terms to puff up its legitimacy: bindingness, universizable |
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-George Orwell, 1946 http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ Politics and the English language |
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-"MEANINGLESS WORDS. In certain kinds of ... reactionary, bourgeois, equality." |
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-Impact is the justification and defense of nearly every past, present, and future instances of oppression. Orwell |
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-George Orwell, 1946 http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ Politics and the English language |
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-"In our time, ...of one's brain." |
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-ALT – Orwell |
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-George Orwell, 1946 http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ Politics and the English language |
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-i. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. |
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-ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do. |
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-iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. |
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-iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active. |
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-v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. |
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-vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. |