George Orwell - Politics and the English Language - Essay

"Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the 
English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we 
cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is 
decadent, and our language--so the argument runs--must inevitably share 
in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse 
of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to 
electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the 
half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an 
instrument which we shape for our own purposes. "

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