george orwell
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George Orwell could mean a few things by the statement, "The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity". I deem that when he talks about "clear language" he means language that isn't padded by words that are meaningless. I also think that it relates to people, like the president, who make speeches and they use big words to loose the mental capacity of the audience. This was seen in one of the speeches that George Bush gave in which he was very repetitive and he used language which was out of date and very un-clear to understand. George Orwell also talks about The way People use words that are no longer understood, or out-dated to try to get their thoughts out. The way people seem to avoid the main topic of conversation is also anther thing the George Orwell believes that ruins the way people talk. This is all stated in one of his works where he criticizes the different ways people talk on an every day basis
I suppose that What George Orwell is trying to say is that when individuals are trying to express their ideas and thoughts sometimes the go about it in a wrong way by the words or phrases that they choose to use. For instance when the president of the United States of America makes a speech for the people, he will use words that are not understood or he will say the same idea in ten different ways to make it seem like he really cares. Part of the reason that the president would use this type of "un-clear language" is because he knows he can get away with it. This is the number one example of how the "greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity"...