It is a good exercise to try for once in a way to express any opinion one holds in words of one syllable.

If you say "The social utility of the indeterminate sentence is recognised by all criminologists as a part of our sociological evolution towards a more humane and scientific view of punishment," you can go on talking like that for hours with hardly a movement of the grey matter inside your skull.

But if you begin "I wish Jones to go to gaol and Brown to say when Jones shall come out," you will discover, with a thrill of horror, that you are obliged to think.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard.

There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration." But these long comfortable words that save modern people the toil of reasoning have one particular aspect in which they are especially ruinous and confusing.