from the complete plain words

"Few common things are more dificult than to find the right word, and many people are too lazy to try. This form of indolence sometimes betrays itself by a copious use of inverted commas. 'I know this is not quite the right word', the inverted commas seem to say, 'but I can't be bothered to think of a better'; or, 'please note that I am using this word faceitiously'; or, 'don't think I don't know that this is a cliche'. If the word is the right one, do not be ashamed of it: if it is the wrong one, do not use it. The same implied apology is often made in conversation by interposing 'you know' or by ending every sentence with phrases such as 'or something' or 'sort of thing'. Officials cannot do that, but in them the same phenomenon is reflected in an unwillingness to venture outside a small vocabulary of shapeless bundles of uncertain content - words and phrases like position, situation, basis, arise, involve, in connection with, in terms of, with reference to, issue, consideration and factor - a disposition, for instance, to 'admit with regret the position which has arisen in connection with' rather than to make the effort to tell the reader specifically what is admitted with regret. Clear thinking is hard work, but loose thinking is bound to produce loose writing. And clear thinking takes time, but time that has to be given to a job to avoid making a mess of it cannot be time wasted and may in the end be time saved."