From Jack Limpert comes a discussion of non-English terms like "folie à deux" and reflections on their overuse from the likes of Orwell: "Except for the useful abbreviations i.e., e.g., and etc., there is no real need for any of the hundreds of foreign phrases now current in the English language. Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones."
April 30, 2015
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