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I'm a big fan of this style, and I recommend Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" as the canonical take on it. He would have a field day with "Enhanced
by petewarden 17y ago
I'm a big fan of this style, and I recommend Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" as the canonical take on it. He would have a field day with "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"!
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
There is a tradeoff here though. Shakespeare's language was elaborate and complex but still powerful. He loved rummaging through the back of the vocabulary cupboard to find just the right word.
- nfnaaron 17y agoOrwell's and Shakespeare's style are both to be emulated, in the appropriate contexts.
- pvg 17y agoOrwell's, more likely than Shakespeare's. The context 'Iambic pentameter blank verse play in Early Modern English' simply doesn't come up that often. Although there is the rare exception - http://www.runleiarun.com/lebowski/ http://www.runleiarun.com/lebowski/
- iuguy 17y agoThat is incredible. My weekend is now officially over.