Rant: Flowery Language

Just read Politics and the English Language by George Orwell. It's hard to pick a good quote to use as a sampler, since all of it is a fun read. "As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have ...