Politics and the English Language - George Orwell

As we have discussed in class, George Orwell's essay:

"The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing."

So, for your mashup - make sense of it. And apply Orwells five rules of writing a literature:

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1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous.

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Heres the link: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79p/index.html