Das
ist der Peter
Mein Weg
aus der Planlosigkeit:
- Never use a metaphor, simile,
or other figure of speech which
you are used to seeing in print.
- Never use a long word where
a short one will do.
- If it is possible to cut a word
out, always cut it out.
- Never use the passive where
you can use the active.
- Never use a foreign phrase,
a scientific word or a jargon
word if you can think of an everyday
English equivalent.
- Break any of these rules sooner
than say anything outright barbarous.
George
Orwell: Politics and the English
Language.1947.
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