Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Jargon, which is not so much bad writing as the avoidance of writing.”
- Source
- On the Art of Writing
- Date
- 1916
Meaning of “Jargon, which is not so much bad writing…”
Jargon is criticized as evasive language that circles around meaning instead of doing the harder work of choosing direct, responsible words.
Where does it come from?
On the Art of Writing, Lecture VI, Project Gutenberg #17470; Quiller-Couch is recalling the preceding lecture’s argument about jargon and prose.
