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As Orwell illustrated [1] I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor
by SixSigma 12y ago
As Orwell illustrated [1]
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
becomes
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.
Trying to sound clever has gone too far, just write the damn words.
[1] http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...
- qu4z-2 12y agoIn fairness, I suspect reading a paper written in the first style would be even worse. EDIT: I can totally get behind the "classic" style referenced in the Pinker link elsewhere in this thread.
- zimbu668 12y agoSee for yourself: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1
- eli_gottlieb 12y agoAcademic and journalistic writing is not supposed to hold the poetry of Biblical verse.