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Wednesday, April 21, 2004
it's a fucking sad life...
i spend 10 hours every day slogging through words, words and more words. law textbook writers who revel in going around in a huge circle to explain a concept that could have been adequately explained in 2 lines. Judges who have a serious problem with comprehensibility. Law reports probably give the thesaurus a run for its money. George Orwell, ‘Politics and the English Language’ - a 1945 essay on the six golden rules of writing. 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 outright barbarous. Res ipsa loquitur, volenti non fit injuria, nemo dat quod non habet, blah blah blah. my myopia is increasing day by day, my caffeine intake is increasing exponentially, and my bed cries out for neglect. bloody exams. i hate 'em and Natwest still has the cheek to send me a letter asking me to correct some tax exempt form that the banker screwed up. i'll just chuck the letter back up their nostrils. everything just seems to go wrong at the same time. pardon my language. something had to give. and it isn't going to be my relationship with my books. kelvin was inspired at 1:20 AM |
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