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

Arroxane



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News story: GB gov't improves communication standards: From: arroxaneullman
RE: News story: GB gov't improves communication standards: From: McLauchlan, Kevin

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