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Re: News story: GB gov't improves communication standards
Subject:Re: News story: GB gov't improves communication standards From:arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:26:28 -0400
Kevin McLauchlan said, "The problem is almost always that PHBs and PHWBs think it makes them appear more important or informed if they just sprinkle such terms with liberal abandon."
Typically ensuant to such corresponding erroneous conclusions and as deplorable as government [or PH(W)Bs] misuse of and obsession with unnecessarily bombastic polysyllabic terminology is Academia's devotion to convoluted construction and tautological verbosity.
I swear most of my college professors wrote that way. /shudder
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