He’s being passive aggressive. Orwell had a particular problem with political speech when he gave his rules on writing simply and clearly.
Don’t speak clearly or concisely or with prose or with poetry, if you lack conviction. Who the fuck are you talking to, take your stand. The world is not your school.
But hey, if he meant ‘this ones for the kids’, make it clear by writing simply.
All forms of expression tread on fraud if you lack conviction, and you will have to hide in airy fortifications of [‘that’s not what I meant’, ‘I was misinterpreted’, ‘You only think I meant this’, ‘Your are the problem’].
Well I’m sorry, I was just trying to figure out what you simply meant to say.
Don’t speak clearly or concisely or with prose or with poetry, if you lack conviction. Who the fuck are you talking to, take your stand. The world is not your school.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Lan...
But hey, if he meant ‘this ones for the kids’, make it clear by writing simply.
All forms of expression tread on fraud if you lack conviction, and you will have to hide in airy fortifications of [‘that’s not what I meant’, ‘I was misinterpreted’, ‘You only think I meant this’, ‘Your are the problem’].
Well I’m sorry, I was just trying to figure out what you simply meant to say.