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有意思的小冊子，奧威爾批判的東西如今學界和政界依舊沿用，而本人這種學術界底層更是無力擺脫。最後的書評其實有一些啓發意義。

Let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about.

覺得把英語換成中文同樣適用,以及他寫小說厲害,吐槽也絲毫不輸(有些段落真的笑齣聲). 不過看完之後真的引以為戒,提醒自己不要為瞭抖包袱而寫那麼多無用浮誇的詞語和句子.

第一篇的嘲諷毫不留情，第二篇review犀利吐血…

one of the most famous manifestos for the use of clear and precise language

Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...  

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing...  

Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...  

Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...  

Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...