"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
nuff said...?