{"id":370,"date":"2014-09-02T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T08:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/?p=370"},"modified":"2014-09-22T19:06:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T18:06:09","slug":"politics-and-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/02\/politics-and-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and the English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, &#8220;is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.&#8221; Orwell believed that the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless because it was intended to hide the truth rather than express it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wikipedia contributors. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Politics_and_the_English_Language&#038;oldid=618464041\">Politics and the English Language.<\/a> Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. July 25, 2014, 20:54 UTC. Available at: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Politics_and_the_English_Language&#038;oldid=618464041. Accessed September 2, 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one&#8217;s real and one&#8217;s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>George Orwell. <a href=\"http:\/\/wikilivres.ca\/wiki\/Politics_and_the_English_Language\">Politics and the English Language<\/a>. Wikilivres. Available at: http:\/\/wikilivres.ca\/wiki\/Politics_and_the_English_Language.  Accessed September 2. 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/use-of-words-in-misuse-of-power\/\">Use of words in misuse of power | John F. Allen&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, &#8220;is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.&#8221; Orwell believed that the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless because it was intended to hide the truth rather than express it. Wikipedia contributors. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/02\/politics-and-the-english-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politics and the English Language<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}