es “are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, home-made turn of speech.”(Orwell 308) When one uses this inflated speech one covers up the details and blurs the purpose. “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible”(Orwell 309) Common people are not going to trust the bureaucrats who make a living trying to make the lies seem like truth. Instead of beating around the bush authorities should guard against double speaking “if one is constantly in guard against them (referring to double speaking), and every such phrase anaesthetizes a portion of one’s brain.”(Orwell 310)Willa Cather also knew how to write simple and clearly. She used clarity to provoke the reader’s imagination: “We were talking about what it is like to spend one’s childhood in little towns like these, buried in wheat and corn, under stimulating extremes of climate: burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky, when one is fairly stifled in vegetation, in the color and smell of strong weeds and heavy harvests; blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron.”(Cather) Cather knew how to keep her reader reading and attentive. Authorities and bureaucrats should take a lesson from Cather on how simplify and keep audience. Then listeners would not groan, and turn off. People then would understood their rights and care for what is happening in our country, because what was said would be plain, and would not take large amounts of thinking to understand.In conclusion, the importance of clear and precise writing can not be emphasized enough. If a speaker has the ability to keep the attention of the receivers and conveys a simple message, the speaker will be well liked and trusted. When jargon is simplified, people become more open minded, and put personal input into wha...
