In the canon
Politics and the English Language
- Form
- Form Essay
- Year
- Year 1946
- Pages
- Pages 10
An essayist shows how stale phrases do our thinking for us, argues that woolly language is what makes political lies possible, and lays down six rules for writing clearly.
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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