Avoiding clichés keeps writers from crafting a lazy string of mixed metaphors, such as a nightmare casting a shroud in a guise of contagion that resembled a deer so unlucky as to be both caught in headlights and paralysed. The most relevant of the rules, in this context was of course number (i). My colleague, too, referred to Orwell’s rules, suggesting that bad writing of this (and other) kinds could be avoided by following them. Yet the nightmare cast its shroud in the guise of a contagion of a deer-in-the-headlights paralysis. (vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.Īround the same time, my colleague flagged a candidate for “The world's worst sentence”. (v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Paula Bermann – Die entgleiste Welt.IN MY last column, I referred to The Economist’s style guide, which includes George Orwell’s famous six rules for writing, taken from “ Politics and the English Language”:.Even As They Protest, Israeli Liberals Reject Solidarity With Palestinians.We Must Put Shadow Banks Under Public Control After Years Of Attacking Protesters, Sudan’s Army And Paramilitary RSF Turn On Each Other.Understanding The Controversy And Legality Of ‘Overseas Police Stations’.The views and opinion expressed in this site are purely those of the individual writers and contributors to the site and do not specifically reflect the thinking and views of the RQ editorial staff. 605 pages of information and entertainment in 21 sections - 3628 posts.
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