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The point is presumably that the original, despite sounding wise, is actually bad advice which even Orwell didn't actually follow.
by 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 agoOrwell 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 agoInteresting. Doesn't argue against dropping the "always", though.