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Isn't that worse than the original? Sorry, I don't understand your point.

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• Chinjut 10y ago
  The point is presumably that the original, despite sounding wise, is actually bad advice which even Orwell didn't actually follow.
  • davnicwil 10y ago
    Orwell was British. The use of 'to cut (a thing)' to mean 'to remove' comes from the American English vernacular. Though the lines are more blurred today, I suspect at the time this was written it would have been extremely odd for Orwell to use that phrasing. In British English, there's really not a shorter way to put that!
    • dllthomas 10y ago
      Interesting. Doesn't argue against dropping the "always", though.