mislabeled source--needs a Super

[Katie]

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

This link (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72144) lists this quote as coming from the book 1984.

It doesn't. It's from an essay called "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell. (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...)

Thank you!

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Katie wrote: ""But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

This link (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72144) lists this quote as coming from the book 1984.

It doesn't. It's from an ..."

Hi Katie
Can you edit the title of this thread to add (needs a Super) or similar? I can't edit a quote with this many likes. :)

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Bumping.

& here is the (excellent) essay concerned. The quote is fairly near the end.

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-...

[Keith]

Two variants merged into master quote
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72144
and source corrected