The original Banned List was, of course,
George Orwell’s in 1946:
dying metaphors (“Examples are: Ring the changes on, take up the cudgel
for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder
with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind, grist to the mill,
fishing in troubled waters, on the order of the day, Achilles’ heel,
swan song, hotbed”);
verbal false limbs (“Characteristic phrases are
render inoperative, militate against, make contact with, be subjected
to, give rise to, give grounds for, have the effect of, play a leading
part (role) in, make itself felt, take effect, exhibit a tendency to,
serve the purpose of”);
pretentious diction (“Words like phenomenon,
element, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effective,
virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilise,
eliminate, liquidate”); and
meaningless words (his examples included
“class, totalitarian, science, progressive, reactionary, bourgeois,
equality”).
And Orwell’s six rules hold good:
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
It should also be noted that the Committee has decreed that
some phrases are compulsory.
blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/14/the-banned-list-top-100/
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