In his landmark work From Dawn to Decadence, historian Jacques Barzun has this to say about how the readability of written English can be under threat: …the resulting obstacles to good prose were: a vocabulary full of technical terms and their jargon imitations, an excess of voguish metaphors, and the preference for long abstract words …
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Published on October 11, 2020 05:00