christy_isinger

[Orwell's essay, "Politics and the English Language"] is a warning about how language controls thought. It is evident that people who don’t think clearly can’t speak clearly, but Orwell pointed out that the reverse is true as well. If we are not accustomed or trained to speak precisely then our ideas will be imprecise, too. Language should be rooted in reality. — David Lebedoff, The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War