Showing posts with label idiom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idiom. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Doublespeak.

Guys, 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.