...Showy language, like showy dress, is in bad taste. The essence of artistic language, as of everything artistic, is not abundant ornament but appropriateness....replace plain English makes a style weak and crude. " Inaugurate " and " inauguration" may be reserved for use in Washington on March 4 and for other appropriate...

...legal diction The historical present Affectation 17. Do not use high-flown language for plain things. Straining for high-sounding expressions to replace plain English makes a style weak rather than strong. For instance, say leg, not limb; letter, not kind favor; house, not residence;...