Thursday, July 16, 2009

On speaking and writing.

A good read. And, no, I am not suggesting that it is deliberately targeted at the frequent visitor to this blog, who has a firmer grasp of the English language than most.

There are some typographical errors in the speech that I would forgive, as I doubt that it is an official transcript. It's an excellent speech otherwise; I really must hand it to the old man.


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2 comments:

sternstadt said...

how ironic then that civil servants are the most guilty of nonsese-speak!

M said...

Well given that most of them don't seem to understand things even when explained to them in simple terms, it might really be because they don't speak English, they just pretend to.