3 ms·
The piece by David Beaver seems quite poor to me. What sense does it have to turn the Orwell’s sixth rule (“feel free to break the rules if they stand in the wa
by zoul 10y ago
The piece by David Beaver seems quite poor to me. What sense does it have to turn the Orwell’s sixth rule (“feel free to break the rules if they stand in the way of plain speech”) into a paradox? Its meaning is obvious. Bashing the active/passive voice rule or the use of metaphors is pure nit-picking, as already said by iso-8859-1. (And “milquetoast simulacra”, WTF?)
- TheOtherHobbes 10y agoA lot of people seem to get very angry about this. I wonder if this has more to do with memories of English teaching at school - where sometimes they do terrible things to writing - than to the content.