"I have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts were confused."
You're damn straight, CS Lewis.
Thursday, 10 February 2011
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I believe this to be supermassively true.
ReplyDeleteChallenging to get there though, when back as an ANU undergrad I was typically rewarded, he says adding in an extra parenthetical phrase just to complicate the sentence structure and indeed make the sentence as long as a paragraph, for writing in ever-more-circumlocutious and pretentious academic-ese. And reading philosophers who wrote in a grossly abstruse manner just to make a point, wasn't exactly providing good role models.
Fortunately, I also had to construct single page civil service memos. Sometimes three-line memos. A brutally joyful economy of words in the service of clarity.