“The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. 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.”

— Politics and the English Language, by Orwell

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This is such a great essay.

Glad you saw this post. Thought of you, since you're a talented writer when you wanna be, just after posting.

Read this other day and this passage stuck with me. I'm not a good writer, never really strove to be, but would like to change that a bit if it's not too late.

It's never too late YODL🙏🏻.

That's what I'm hoping 🥲

That's nice of you YodlBase CEO. The best way to get good at writing is to read moar.

This is very true, John.

Summarised, superfluously and extemporaniously.

Orwell gets me hard

A comma left out? 🤭😳

My boy Eric lived way before me so I can't say that he gets me. I really dig his style. He's the goat. Fuck Huxley. 😅

Only read brave new world from Huxley, a long time ago. And it was not nearly as good as 1984, so I guess I'm with you.

That's a tragedy. I hate when people agree with me. Now we probably share the same blindspot. 🐸🐸