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>... Orwell said long ago, that most of what we write is just mindless concatenation of premade phrases. That sounds really interesting, but my Google-fu faile
by falcor84 4y ago
>... Orwell said long ago, that most of what we write is just mindless concatenation of premade phrases.
That sounds really interesting, but my Google-fu failed me here; what is the full quote?
- version_five 4y agoHere is one - I thought I remembered another essay where he said something similar as well, where he was discussing jargon, but I didn't find it yet (or I'm remembering wrong and this is the only quote) modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/ https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...