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		<title>Microsoft &#8211; can you write software better than you write English?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 21:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most mission statements are mush. Read any corporation&#8217;s or (if you are having a really good day and want to make your self feel despondent) government department&#8217;s mission statement to realise how poorly the 26 letters of the alphabet can be organised. Platitudes, jargon, euphemisms and plain junk writing infest many if not most of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pin a tail on it and call it weasel words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that struck me as a reporter in my previous life was that defensive explanations are often  inversely credible to the number of words that they contain. The best I ever read were years ago in Newsweek&#8217;s letter to the editor column. Someone would complain about a story&#8217;s slant or conclusion and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Assaults on English</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about English that bureaucrats and middle managers feel that they can destroy it by reassembling the 26 letters that they have available into gobbledygook and nonsense? At random, today, here are two examples of junk writing that should never have passed muster. The first comes from the Department of Conservation. It published [&#8230;]]]></description>
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