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The Gobbledygook Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Abstract

Gobbledygook, jargon, bureaucratese and legalese – people rail against them all. Can anything be said objectively about these ‘symptoms’ of a ‘diseased’ and ‘degenerate’ English? Is there, indeed a case for surgery?

Type
Special Features
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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