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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Media training lessons evade army chief
Mouthy General can't unsay what's been said. Words came too easily.
Posted in I wish I'd never said that Comments closed
Issue 3 of the Plain Text client newsletter
This time we feature two projects where we've worked with AV and design partners to produce short films and a printed report.
The sublime art of the daft headline
The Register knocks out another tremendous one-liner: read it and weep, tabloid subs...
Save our language from the Queen’s English Society
If these are the new custodians of English, we're in trouble.
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007 parachutes into pointless language struggle