tuscanhallbridessuite - The Monday Morning Memo

Two private styling salons, a living room, a kitchen and a bedroom
for the bride preparing for her wedding. Princess Pennie has been busy.

“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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