Heather Aubrey's George Orwell and the English LanguageYes, I did write that. And yes, I am so sorry. Please forgive me.
Orwell's "predictions of what problems the dangerous capabilities of language might cause are coming true today."
(You could pretend that the sentence was intended as an example of language going bad, but I don't think it's bad in the way Orwell was predicting, and anyway I wasn't that smart when I was a senior in high school.)
[Update 9/13 3:30 pm:] OMGWTFBBQ, here is the essay in its entirety. I have got to archive this puppy.
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