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- Politics_and_the_English_Language abstract "\"Politics and the English Language\" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticises the \"ugly and inaccurate\" written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. It was first noted in Orwell's payment book of 11 December 1945; the first known publication was in the April 1946 issue of the journal Horizon. The article had been intended for George Weidenfeld's Contact magazine but it was turned down – the magazine wanted reportage. Politics and the English Language was Orwell's last major article for Horizon.The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, \"is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.\" Orwell believed that the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless because it was intended to hide the truth rather than express it. This unclear prose was a \"contagion\" which had spread to those who did not intend to hide the truth, and it concealed a writer's thoughts from himself and others. Orwell encourages concreteness and clarity instead of vagueness, and individuality over political conformity.".
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