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Word Matters on Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”

Scrupulous or even cursory reading of “Politics and the English Language” reveals, again and again, that the Merriam-Webster editors’ criticisms of the essay have no basis in the essay. Orwell deserves better than he got in the podcast Word Matters.

#GeorgeOrwell #language #politics

·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 9, 2022

Word Matters on Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”

More bad words

The Washington Post reports that the Centers for Disease Control is not alone in cuts to vocabulary.

#GeorgeOrwell #politics #words

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 18, 2017

More bad words

The seven words you can’t write at the CDC

Forbidden words: “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”

#GeorgeOrwell #politics #words

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 18, 2017

The seven words you can’t write at the CDC

What didn’t the president know and when didn’t he know it

“The president wasn’t even aware of where this information came from. He wasn’t briefed on the source or method of the information either.”

#GeorgeOrwell #politics

·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 18, 2017

What didn’t the president know and when didn’t he know it

Method and madness

Joel Whitebook, director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at Columbia University, writing about “Trump’s Method, Our Madness.”

#GeorgeOrwell #politics #truth

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 21, 2017

Method and madness

“Past events”

From Nineteen Eighty-Four.

#GeorgeOrwell #history #politics #truth

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Feb 17, 2017

“Past events”

Rewriting the past

From Nineteen Eighty-Four.

#fiction #GeorgeOrwell #history #politics

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jan 28, 2017

Rewriting the past

Lies and inconsistencies

At Daring Fireball, John Gruber unpacks the lies and illogicalities in a three-sentence statement from the president-elect’s transition team: 235 words to parse just 42.

#GeorgeOrwell #politics #truth

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 13, 2016

Lies and inconsistencies

“Mistakes were made”

Roy Peter Clark on Chris Christie and the passive voice.

#politics #usage #GeorgeOrwell

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jan 23, 2014

“Mistakes were made”

"[S]imply a controlled acute episode"

"I suspect that 'controlled acute episode' will join 'enhanced interrogation techniques' as historical shorthand for the George W. Bush administration's utter corruption of language, moral reasoning, and democratic principles."

#culture #language #politics #words #GeorgeOrwell

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 19, 2009

"[S]imply a controlled acute episode"

George Orwell on totalitarian history

Created, not learned.

#GeorgeOrwell #politics

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Oct 15, 2008

George Orwell on totalitarian history

Couric and Palin and Orwell

"It is at this point that the special connexion between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear."

#GeorgeOrwell #politics

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Sep 27, 2008

Couric and Palin and Orwell