7. How to Fix a Broken Public Language

1. . George Orwell, “Some Thoughts on the Common Toad,” in In Front of Your Nose (Jaffrey, NH: David Godine, 2000), p. 143.

2. . George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” in George Orwell: A Collection of Essays (Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1981), pp. 156–71.

3. . Lancelot Hogben, Interglossa (New York: Penguin, 1943), p. 7.

4. . “New Worlds,” in Orwell: My Country Right or Left (Jaffrey, NH: David Godine, 2000), p. 3.

5. . David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, E 12.34.

6. . Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness (New York: Routledge, 1961), p. 4.

7. . Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Basil Blackwell & Mott, 1958), Part I, 1.

8. . Ibid., Part II, iv.

9. . Adolf Hitler, Appeal to Political Leaders, September 11, 1936.

10. . Ernst Hanfstaengl, Unheard Witness (Philadelphia: I. B. Lippincott Co., 1957), p. 266.

11. . Martin Heidegger, address to the Freiburg Institute of Pathological Anatomy, August 1933, quoted in Emmanuel Faye, Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy, trans. Michael B. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 68.

12. . T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton, V, in Four Quartets.

13. . www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mqFsVUIQrg.

14. . George Orwell, “My Country Right or Left,” in An Age Like This (Jaffrey, NH: David Godine, 2000), p. 539.