This article was originally published in The Daily Pulp on June 9, 2014. “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.”  ― George Orwell, Politics and the […]

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