That's what we're talking about," Don Lemon, a CNN anchor, said at the start of a remarkable hour of television about what many people -- myself included -- consider just about the most indefensible term in the English language, a word in the news lately because a whole lot of people are making a big deal over the fact that Paula Deen may have uttered it within the past 30 years.
Sir Ernest spoke about his work on the articles concerning hyphens, "Shall and Will," "Feminine Designations," Sturdy Indefensibles," "Vogue Words," "Image," "Relax," "Abstractitis," "Headline Language," "Reduplicated Words," "Square".
"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible," he wrote in "Politics and the English Language".
In her strongly worded resignation letter, whose morning publication came as a surprise to No 10, Warsi warned that "our approach and language during the current crisis in Gaza is morally indefensible [and] is not in Britain's national interest".
She wrote in her resignation letter: "My view has been that our policy in relation to the Middle East peace process generally but more recently our approach and language during the current crisis in Gaza is morally indefensible, is not in Britain's national interest and will have a long-term detrimental impact on our reputation internationally and domestically".
In her resignation letter, Warsi said the government's "approach and language during the current crisis in Gaza is morally indefensible, is not in Britain's national interest and will have a long term detrimental impact on our reputation internationally and domestically".
In her resignation letter to Cameron, Warsi said the government's "approach and language" during the month-long conflict in Gaza had been "morally indefensible".
George Orwell argued in "Politics and the English Language" that "political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible".
Writing in 1945, George Orwell explained why war-mongers mangled the language: "in our era political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible".
In his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language," Orwell writes that "political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible," hence the need for euphemisms, "question begging" and what he calls "sheer cloudy vagueness".
