[RayChuang88]

Thank you for printing that essay!

I really hope that as many people read this essay as possible to use it as a devestating weapon against the poltical correctness fanciers.

[gaspar]

A wonderful essay. However, I carp (no not the fish, I am using a short word) at (with, toward?) point 3, above. It is said that in his poetry and plays Shakespeare used 90% of the words then used in the English language. Some large, some small, and many contrivances. Thus the absolute demand to "Never" use a large word when a small word will do, is a proletarian attack on style. And certainly despite Orwell's many attainments, he remained to the end a proletarian and not much of a stylist.