On English usage, the Trump effect needn’t be the last word
Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views by emailing us your Letter to the Editor at letters@scmp.com or filling in this Google form. Submissions should not exceed 400 words. Traditionally, the rationales for using “good” English with precision have been well explained. First, as George Orwell argued in his essay “Politics and the English Language”, the decline of standards in politics and that in the use of English can reinforce each other: our...
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