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Volume 2 - October 1986

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  • Interfacing

  • Tom McArthur
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  • Smoothing out the wrinkles

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  • Linguicidal tendencies?

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  • Click!

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  • The Gobbledygook Syndrome

  • Jean Aitchison
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    17 October 2008, pp. 7-9

  • 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?

  • Literacy 2000

  • David Crystal
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    17 October 2008, pp. 9-12

  • What do we understand by the terms ‘literate’ and ‘illiterate’? Could the time ever come when there were no ‘illiterates’ left on earth?

  • The usage industry

  • Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, pp. 8-12

  • Guides to ‘good usage’ have been part of the tradition of ‘standard English’ since the 17th century. Such works have been a commercial success and are as abundant today as in the past. What characterizes the tradition of these ‘bibles of usage’?

  • Prestige, purity, and power

  • Tony Fairman
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    17 October 2008, pp. 13-16

  • ‘Language isn't used only for communication; it's also used as an instrument of political and social power.’ If this is so, is something that was common 150 years ago in the social power-plays of England repeating itself in black Africa?

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  • PLAIN ENGLISH in the United Kingdom

  • Chrissie Maher, Martin Cutts, James T Dayananda
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    17 October 2008, pp. 10-16

  • Today it is difficult to find a truly atrocious British government form being issued to the public. OUT are the acres of grey small print, the 60-word sentences, the endless use of that bureaucratic knee jerk, the passive verb. IN are forms that look good, read well, and even save money through their greater efficiency.

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