...scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider lor instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright,...

...scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling...outright, "I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results by doing so." Probably, therefore, he will say something like this: While...

...scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them . . . GEORGE ORWELL, Politics and the English Language . . . there is nothing more detrimental to clarity...

...remained a dur - a Stalin and Rakosi man. Orwell once characterized the euphemism as the naming of things "without calling up mental pictures of them....outright, 'I believe in killing off your opponents when you get good results by doing so.' " Here was a man incapable of euphemism. He had rid himself...

...scurvy in Arctic labour camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. . . . The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and...

...of scurvy in Artic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them» («Politcs and the English Language», en Tlie Collected Essays. Joumalism and Letters of George Onvell,...

...scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling...outright, "I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results by doing so." Probably, therefore, he will say something like this: While...

...this is called pacification. [Pacification is a noun construction - he continues - ] Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. To demonstrate how this can be applicable to museum texts here is another example taken from the late...

...scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.s2 Such passages make it quite obvious that when Orwell presented Newspeak in his novel 1984 he...

...time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible [...]. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them, (ibid., pp. 261-262) The linguistic intervention Orwell calls for is not a restructuring of the language,...