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Politics and the English Language
“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.”
Still the best test for corporate and political writing: when the prose gets foggy, ask what the writer would rather not say plainly. Vague prose is often a choice, not a skill gap.
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