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Here 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 rem
by version_five 4y ago
Here 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...