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George Orwell’s 6 Rules for Good Writing are 6 Rules for a Good Life

George Orwell’s 6 Rules for Good Writing are 6 Rules for a Good Life

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”

Steven Gambardella
Oct 12, 2019
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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”

George Orwell (Eric Blair) in 1940 (Public domain souce: Wikipedia)

“Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way.” So began one of George Orwell’s most celebrated essays, ‘Politics and the English Language’. He was writing in 1946, Europe was broken…

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