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These words are what George Orwell ranted against in https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-engli

• Animats 1y ago
  Yes, that's well known. Orwell on language is an important subject too long to discuss here. His rules, though, are still useful: i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do. iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active. v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. (Much of this came from Orwell's work during WWII, when he worked at the British Ministry of Information. Part of his job was translating news into 1000-word vocabulary Basic English for broadcast in the Colonies, mostly India. Hammering political speech down into Basic English requires forcing it into concrete terms, which is an act of political interpretation. That's where Newspeak, in 1984, came from. 1984 is semi-autobiographical, based on his WWII job. See "Orwell, The Lost Writings". One of his managers was called "Big Brother" behind his back.)