Empathy for Writers & George Orwell’s Experiment

I was born in 1946. That was also the year George Orwell published his essay, Politics and the English Language. In that essay he exposes a “catalogue of swindles and perversions” that writers were using: Staleness of imagery Lack of precision Dying metaphors Operators or verbal false limbs Pretentious diction Meaningless words But, George also [...]