This is depressingly similar to Comp. 2740, which was based on Henry Miller's "Work commandments". Apparently, it's not only competitors who go in for a spot of recycling.
For ease of reference, here are Orwell's rules:
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 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 barbarous.
Last edited by Brian Allgar; 04-17-2014 at 04:46 AM.
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