Found via the always-interesting Daily Obsessional blog: George Orwell’s Rules for Writers:
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He forgot #7: Get paid.
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Hmm, I have to agree with his rule #6 more than the others at least on an individual level.
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I fully agree with #1. The others are a bit more problematic. For example, I use longer words when they are more precise.
These have been paraphrased a little bit. They’re originally from Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language”. Here’s the wikipedia entry for the essay, with links to complete online versions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
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