Tài liệu 04) Simplify ppt

Never use a long word where a short one will do.. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent... Instead of: I’m

Simplify: Orwell's Rules

Orwell's Rules (Some of them)

1. Never use a long word where a short one will

do.

2. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it

out.

active.

4. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word

or a jargon word if you can think of an

everyday English equivalent.

1) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

I am pleased to make your acquaintance.

Instead of:

I’m pleased to meet you.

I’m pleased to meet you.

Write:

2) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

What I want to say to you is that you are fat.

Instead of:

You are fat.

Write:

2) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

The thing is that we really don’t have enough money.

Instead of:

We don’t have enough money.

Write:

3) Never use the passive where you can use the active*

These slides were prepared by me.

Instead of:

I made these slides.

Write:

*See English Language 09 for more information about passive and active voice.

About George Orwell

George Orwell was an author He believed that people with

political power use

complicated and vague

language to control people’s

ideas Orwell said that

everyone should try to use

clear, simple language to help

each other understand

About author

Hans Anderson

 2007-Present: Lecturer at FPT Greenwich Programmes , FPT University.

 2007: M.S., Computational Mathematics, University of Minnesota

 2001: B.A., Computer Science, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN