orwell on Nostr: The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's ...
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 squirting out ink.
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