Medical Care and the English Language
- 28 October 1976
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 295 (18) , 1012-1013
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197610282951810
Abstract
In 1946 the late George Orwell, famous for his novels Animal Farm and 1984, wrote an essay that he called "Politics and the English Language."* Some of his observations follow:Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it... Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: that it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But . . .Keywords
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