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It's the birthday of George Orwell. The Writer's Almanac posted this quote:

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns ... instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

Although I imagine he had in mind political doublespeak, it reminds me of the many letters to advice collumnists which ask the best way to say something absolutely abominable but come off as purehearted.