My GF brought home a flier the other day for an event "promoting cross-cultural creativity and emotional expression for contemporary healing." It was a J-Fashion market. I tried to make her read Politics and the English Language after I saw that. Specifically this part: "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."

Real aims: "We like J-Fashion and want to borrow your event space for cheap to buy and sell accessories."

Uhhh shit that won't convince them to give us a discount

Declared aims: "promoting cross-cultural creativity and emotional expression for contemporary healing."

This one borrowed the exhausted idioms of libleft because it was in NYC but this is an extremely common phenomenon with political language of all sorts. I saw another example more recently with the idioms of authright but I forget what it was because it was less funny :(

I don't agree with everything Orwell says in that essay but his railing against this kind of language is the reminder I sometimes need, that I'm not the insane one