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{{blue|The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.}}

File:Lunchtime on Stob Coire Easain (Grey Corries).jpg

'''{{blue|A{{nbs}}scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: }}

  1. What am I trying to say?
  2. What words will express it?
  3. What image or idiom will make it clearer?
  4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

'''{{blue|And he will probably ask himself two more:}}

  1. Could I put it more shortly?
  2. Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?

'''{{blue|But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.}}

  1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
  2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
  3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
  4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
  5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
  6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

{{blue|To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.}}

:A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details ...

{{blue|― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language}}

::::::::{{red|How shall I explain the dying that was done?}}

::::::::{{red|How shall I convey that each one}}

::::::::{{red|Did the callous calculus of life,}}

::::::::{{red|In their mind resolved}}

::::::::{{red|The algebra of necessity}}

::::::::{{red|And wrote the value of their days}}

::::::::{{red|Against the bloody margin}}

::::::::{{red|In an understated hand?}}

::::::::{{red|They will want to know:}}

::::::::{{red|How was the audit done?}}

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