Simple speaking is harder to abuse, as Orwell noted in “Politics and the English Language”, but I would prefer not to make a categorical ban on imagery. Not only is it aesthetically pleasing, a true metaphor (such as, I don’t know, “the map is not the territory”) is no less true because it is not literal. The problem lies when speech departs from reality, not in the fashion of speaking which does so.
Simple speaking is harder to abuse, as Orwell noted in “Politics and the English Language”, but I would prefer not to make a categorical ban on imagery. Not only is it aesthetically pleasing, a true metaphor (such as, I don’t know, “the map is not the territory”) is no less true because it is not literal. The problem lies when speech departs from reality, not in the fashion of speaking which does so.