[from Garner's Usage Tip's Quote of the Day]
notes from the underground: my attempt to keep the things I read in my brain
Thursday, February 12, 2015
weakness with razzle-dazzle rhetoric
"Simple prose is clear prose. And simple prose, if smooth and rhythmical, is readable prose. Let your ideas alone do the impressing. If they look banal to you, there's only one remedy: upgrade them. Don't try to camouflage their weakness with razzle-dazzle rhetoric. You'll razzle-dazzle yourself right into a bog of bull." John R. Trimble, Writing with Style 30 (2d ed. 2000).
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