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The Monday Morning Memo

The cognoscenti know the wizard has long admired the insight and wit of Ze Frank.
“Nerdwriter” Evan Puschak has now been added to that extremely very short list.
Puschak makes BIG IDEAS understandable and triggers wandering flights of fancy through fields of gold. Looking back through his Nerdwriter archives, today I learned the difference between Modernism and Post-Modernism. Never really knew that before. I’ve posted the video below. – Indy

“One of the key characteristics of our time is its inability to define itself with a set of intellectual ideas… What’s really changed is our relationship to history… History – studying it or writing it or knowing it – has always been a game of meanings. We look back and based on certain material facts and contemporary writings, try to tell a coherent story about past cultures and their values, the meanings they ascribed to their time and existence.”

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“Here are some writing rules proposed by George Orwell to ensure that your language is not vague, misleading, and meaningless:

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.”

- from "Politics & the English Language," in which Orwell criticizes the vague, misleading, meaningless writing style of the academics, authors, and politicians of his day, is an excellent work, and as true now as it was in 1946.

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