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essay:politics and the English language
Orwell uses the image of a cuttlefish to describe users of inflated language: “When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” How does the image of a cuttlefish squirting ink relate to his claims in the rest of the essay?
Orwell uses the image of a cuttlefish to describe users of inflated language: “When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” How does the image of a cuttlefish squirting ink relate to his claims in the rest of the essay?
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Ms. Sue
The gobbledy gook and trite phrases confuse the listener and makes logical thinking very difficult.