The Simplified blog

Hi all

Fellow simplifier, Amanda, reminded me of the repartee between Hemingway and Faulkner:

Faulkner said of Hemingway: "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary".

The 'king of the short sentence' didn't miss a beat in his response: "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?".

Amanda also emailed me some other great plain-language-related insults:

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." Abraham Lincoln

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination."
Andrew Lang

Cheers,

Frances