All issues are political issues, anditself is a mass of , evasions, , , and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.But ifcorrupts , language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

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