...for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements....things without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider lor instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot...

...for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements....things without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot...

...for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck, or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements....things without calling up mental pictures of them . . . GEORGE ORWELL, Politics and the English Language . . . there is nothing more detrimental to clarity...

...imprisoned for years without tria!, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Artic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements....things without calling up mental pictures of them» («Politcs and the English Language», en Tlie Collected Essays. Joumalism and Letters of George Onvell,...

...for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements....things without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot...

...for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements....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...

...incendiary bullets: 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...

...understand. In our 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,...

...the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them."12 "Political language," Orwell concludes, "... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder...

...for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements....things without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot...