George Orwell claimed in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” that English was in a bad way: common consensus (which he was satirizing) held “that any struggle against the abuse of ...
Unspeak, writer Steven Poole’s term for a phrase or word that contains a whole unspoken political argument, deserves a place in every journalist’s daily vocabulary. Such gems of unspeak, such as ...
At the bottom of Monday’s column, I invited Slate readers to submit the best examples of unspeak they’ve encountered and promised to publish the best of the lot. If you didn’t read the column and have ...
Politicians are engineering language for their own purposes. We need to watch out, Unspeak author Steven Poole, tells Rosita Boland In one of his less forgettable comments following 9/11, George Bush ...
Can you speak 'Unspeak'? I ask this question just a few days before a book is to be published analysing this persuasive and all-pervasive mainly American form of language, but also just a few days ...
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