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- Once we hated business jargon… Back in the day, Plain Text railed against corporatese like everyone else…
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- Tim Harford Not scared of full stops.
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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Dissing office jargon is so last decade
Business jargon is good. There, we've said it.
Texting slang improves literacy – official (again)
The publication today of new research claiming that child text addicts have high levels of literacy may surprise some parents. But not those who read the report last year, or the year before that, or the year before that.
Hopes for the Cornish language
New language lessons for Cornish toddlers begin this month
Bad language in Scotland
You almost certainly know three words of the Scots language. But 85 per cent of Scottish people claim to use much more of the language when socialising
The end of the church – lost in translation
The Times letter that tells why the church gave way to a congregation
Nouns as verbs – not all bad
Being 'platformed' is indeed a terrible thing, even for an unreliable British train carriage. But nouns turning into verbs (verbifying, perhaps? Maybe not) is just part of linguistic development.
To alight – right verb, ugly use
When did you last say "alight"?
To be platformed – train grammar horror
First Great Western create new horror verb
Succinct summaries
Murder case summary puts it nicely
The Downing Street verb: “To Kofi”