https://pavanyara.com/tags/orwell/Recent content in Orwell on Pavan YaraHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USpavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)pavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)Pavan YaraWed, 19 Aug 2009 14:22:00 +0530https://pavanyara.com/blog/six-rules-of-writing/Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:22:00 +0530pavan.yara@gmail.com (Pavan Yara)https://pavanyara.com/blog/six-rules-of-writing/<p>George Orwell’s six elementary rules (“Politics and the English Language”, 1946):</p> <ul> <li>Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print (see metaphors).- Never use a long word where a short one will do.- If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out.</li> <li>Never use the passive where you can use the active.</li> <li>Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent .- Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous</li> </ul>George Orwell’s six elementary rules (“Politics and the English Language”, 1946):

• Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print (see metaphors).- Never use a long word where a short one will do.- If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out.
• Never use the passive where you can use the active.
• Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent .- Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous

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