Drawing on George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language", Lewis Spurgin discusses the bad habits prevalent in science writing. He argues the imitative and pretentious nature of how scie...
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A dying metaphor, according to Orwell, is one that is neither useful for evoking an image, nor one that has become a meaningful phrase in its own right. They are “worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves”. In science writing, dying metaphors can be most easily seen in journal article titles. Here are a few examples: