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You might be thinking of George Orwell, "politics and the english language" (a bit after the victorian era) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_Engli
by conanite 15y ago
You might be thinking of George Orwell, "politics and the english language" (a bit after the victorian era)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langua...
Rule 5 states: Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
- zwp 15y agoYes! Thank you. Exactly (was later than I thought). http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm "Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones..."