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George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" talks about how the english language has become more and more "nasty" and when the english language becomes more "nasty" so does political regeneration. As George Orwell said, an effect may also be a cause which applies to the sentence before this one. The author compares the english language to a man who will drink to escape the truth of him being a "failure" and then fail more because he drinks. Orwell said that there are two qualities that define a bad contemporary writing. First is staleness of imagery and the other is lack of precision. The following are his recommendation in the proper use of the english language :

(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
(ii) Never us a long word where a short one will do.
(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.
(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.