1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
-George Orwell
(I know the photo doesn't really have anything to do with the content of this post, but it's cool, no?)
1 comment:
so true. i like this quote of his: 'writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some illness.'
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