Category Archives: Bad writing

From aha! to WTF? When good business writing goes bad

By Paul W | Published: November 25, 2011
That dull marketing copy may once have been brilliant.
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Could an ad be more wrong?

By Paul W | Published: June 9, 2011
This crime-stopping poster spotted on a station platform could mark a new low in advertising
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Write badly, lose money

By Paul W | Published: February 2, 2011
Do cuts to arts courses prove you can only write so much nonsense before the bullshit bites back?
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Add this up

By Paul N | Published: December 29, 2010
The Telegraph reports that “two teenage youths and a 16-year-old girl” have been involved in a car accident. Am I missing something – or doesn’t that make three teenage youths? Perhaps the word ‘youth’ now refer exclusively to males in the Telegraph’s world. And youths or teenagers, would suffice, surely?
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Save our language from the Queen’s English Society

By Paul W | Published: June 7, 2010
If these are the new custodians of English, we're in trouble.
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