Orwell's Politics & Language - 9.28.15

Orwell's essay on politics and language is relevant to today's political era as they all use a sense of euphemism to make things sound better than they are. Just like how it sounds better to say pro-choice instead of saying you are for abortion. Something that I thought of relating to the idea of this "euphemism" is when the South Carolinian governor, Mark Sanford, said he was on vacation hiking the Appalachian Trail but he was actually with his mistress in Argentina. So now people use the phrase "hiking the Appalachian Trail" in order to discussions of political scandal. George Orwell's essay is also relevant in the fact that people use "pretentious diction" when talking in order to seem impressive and knowledgable.