George Orwell, Politics And The English Language Quotes
Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.
What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...