George Orwell claimed in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” that English was in a bad way: common consensus (which he was satirizing) held “that any struggle against the abuse of ...
Leonard Nimoy used to do the Vulcan mind-meld with his fingers spread on your face — my mind to your mind, my thoughts to your thoughts — and just like that he had your secrets. Spooky. Beautiful, too ...
Unspeak by Steven Poole 288pp, Little, Brown, £9.99 The use and abuse of words is an endlessly fascinating subject to anyone interested in communications, and the 30 pages' worth of reference notes - ...
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