I posit that the author of this article has only ever read that one George Orwell essay[1]. If he had read any others he would have probably known better than t

I posit that the author of this article has only ever read that one George Orwell essay[1]. If he had read any others he would have probably known better than to connect an author renowned for his clean, precise, journalistic prose to an argument about how such prose is outmoded. [1](http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/Politics_and_the_English_Language-1.pdf http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/Politics_and_the_English_...)