George Orwell - The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one...

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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 squirting out ink.

George Orwell

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Der große Feind klarer Sprache ist Unaufrichtigkeit. Wenn es eine Lücke zwischen den eigenen und den erklärten Zielen gibt, wendet man sich instinktiv zu langen Worten und erschöpften Redewendungen wie einem Tintenfisch, der Tinte herausspritzt.

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