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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
- Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print [or other media].
- Never use a long word where a short one will do.
- If it is possible to cut out a word, 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.
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These are great rules. The thing I wonder is certain genre have key words they always use that are foreign/jargon/etc.
For example:
hyperspace
comm
raise him/her/it on the comm
klick
Class M Planet
Class G Star
humaniod
and so on. Are those kinds of things "cliche'" or jargon or etc under these rules?