atw: Re: SEC: UNCLASS Pet hates
- From: "Brian Clarke" <brianclarke01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:50:22 +1000
How about these choice morsels?
'at this point in time' = now
'in the fullness of time' = maybe not
'time is a great healer' = no idea
'in all probability' = perhaps
'a steep learning curve' = a shallow one, really
Does 'Orstayya' fit in here?
Worse cases include the usual journalistic 'correlation = causality' stuff we
still seem to see both in print and on the 12-year-olds' box. Or worse yet,
'post hoc, ergo propter hoc', meaning that the proposer understands the
temporal notion of causality but little else.
There are plenty more - just listen to the youngsters on the ABC, that great
forcing house of English impropriety.
Brian.
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