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November 16, 2004

Yet another "End of the World" story

Reuters reports the death of the English language. Again.

The English language is being destroyed by a "deadly virus of management speak" which has infected the mouths and minds of politicians like Tony Blair and George W. Bush, a leading UK journalist said Monday.

The British Prime Minister and his ally the U.S. President are mangling the language, destroying its meaning by avoiding the use of verbs, twisting nouns into verbs, and endlessly repeating phrases until they become "zombified."

"It's deeply depressing," says John Humphrys, one of Britain's leading political journalists and the author of a new book, "Lost for Words," about the demise of the language.

Humphys' book laments the growth of "cliched, dumbed-down, inflated and bogus management-speak" which he says now passes for English.

Posted by Nicholas at November 16, 2004 11:18 AM
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