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Read the following passage carefully and answer Question Nos. 7 and 8 : In his essay, Politics and the English Language (1946) George Orwell writes— "... if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better. The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink." What is Orwell's primary argument regarding the relationship between language and thought?
Correct Answer: (b)
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This question appeared in the APSC Prelims 2025 examination (GS-II). It is Question 7 out of 180 questions in this paper.
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