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Unspeak
Unspeak is a blog I have just started reading, by the writer Steven Poole. You can read it here. Steven makes a living out of raging against people who abuse language, either consciously via propaganda or unconsciously via sheer laziness or lack of thought.
I don’t know him at all, and haven’t yet read the book that predated the blog (also called Unspeak), but I enjoy his writing. His mix of anger and precision reminds me a bit of George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language, a formative influence on me (although Steven is no Orwell cheerleader, and has some harsh words to say about some of his writing).
Andrew
