Tag Archives: bad writing

In the New Statesman Ed Smith pushes back at Orwell‘s classic ‘Politics and the English Language‘: When politicians or corporate front men have to bridge a gap between what they are saying and what they know to be true, their preferred technique is to convey authenticity by speaking with misleading simplicity. The ubiquitous injunction ‘Let’sContinue reading “Contra Ed Smith, Plain and Clear Language is Still a Virtue”