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Faulkner, Hemingway, Lincoln and Lang... insults in plain language
Frances Gordon | 27 July 2007 | 12:05Hi 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
Andrew Lang
Cheers,
Frances
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