No one has written better than Orwell on the abuse of language for political ends.
The firing of James Comey, the F.B.I. director, on the other hand, represents not only an abuse of language but an abuse of power.
He criticized the belief "that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light".
I doubt it was great in the purest sense of the word, but all our tongues are dirty on that particular abuse of language.
"Orwellian" to me evokes his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language", and the way in which the abuse of language can lead to the contortion of truth and, ultimately, the abuse of people themselves.
The pioneer of forensic linguistics is widely considered to be Roger Shuy, a retired Georgetown University professor and the author of such fundamental textbooks as "Language Crimes: The Use and Abuse of Language Evidence in the Courtroom".
When the bullshitting is done from an ulterior motive, like the selling of a product or the manipulation of an electorate, the outcome is likely to be a ghastly abuse of language.
This is an abuse of language, and makes it harder for the UN to speak with authority when human rights, such as the right to life, really are threatened.
Beneath this didactic surface, Reed's real concern is with the absurdity of war, its smallness in the face of natural beauty and human love, and the abuse of language required to lend conflict an air of overarching importance.
Cummings also satirised the political abuse of language through hackneyed cliches in Next to of course god America; the poem is a technical tour de force in which he weaves the commonplaces of political discourse into a perfect rhyming sonnet.
