![]() It seems that people have always known what ‘bad’ writing is, and yet nothing is done to teach ‘good’ writing. to avoid: nominalisations, glue words, the passive voice, legal prepositional phrases, legalese, and bad sentence technique. ![]() When I read his explanations, I can see a lot of parallels between what he said then and what I teach now, i.e. dying metaphors, (please note my metaphor at the beginning of this piece!).George Orwell said that English can suffer from: In the article he took 5 examples and broke them down regarding their plain English errors and he came up with the following issues. You can find these 6 rules discussed here: įor me, I found his analysis of language examples extremely interesting. ![]() In that article he sets out 6 rules for authors to follow to improve their use of English and make it much more communicable. This article is called ‘Politics and the English Language’. It therefore might come as a surprise to learn that George Orwell wrote a landmark short article in 1946 attacking what he believed to be the terrible use of English at the time. Now, plain English is mandatory as a result of government legislation or guidelines, private sector demand (particularly in the legal sector), and because ‘time is money’ – information has to communicated quickly, and accurately. It’s really only in the last 30 years that the plain English ball has really started to roll. ![]() If you think plain English is a modern-day invention, I suppose you could be forgiven. ![]()
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