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“We believe that implicit communication–to communicate through mutual understanding, using a minimum of key, well-understood phrases or even anticipating each other’s thoughts–is a faster, more efficient way to communicate than through the use of detailed, explicit instructions.”

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946: “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. In our age there is no such thing as [...]