[lbo-talk] Sublation

Michael Dawson -PSU mdawson at pdx.edu
Wed Mar 3 08:47:54 PST 2004


dredmond:


> An individual word
> is never ugly, only sentences are ugly.

Orwell and I disagree, in spades:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. 3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 4. Never use the passive [voice] where you can use the active. 5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. 6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

"Sublation" sucks!



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