Comment by Myrmornis
1 day ago
> How to Write English Prose
> There are few if any passages in the works of Sir Thomas Browne that I do not find thoroughly delightful; but two afford me particularly intense pleasure.
> To my mind, each is in its own way a perfect, exquisitely faceted gem of English prose from an especially glorious literary epoch. The music of the one has haunted me for most of my life;
Oh come on. Sir Thomas Browne looks well worth reading but the author of this article is unreadably pretentious.
Who was it said "Death to all modifiers"?
Nouns, verbs, prepositions, and articles. Use those.