Are George Orwell’s 6 Writing Rules Nonsense?

Some people love them; some hate them. What do you think?

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I wrote an article about George Orwell’s 6 Rules of Good Writing last month. It created some interesting discussion. Many people try to follow the rules, but some say they’re tosh. One writer said they’re just ‘fun and pun’, written for Newspeak, a language created for Orwell’s fictional…