atw: Calling all respectable journeymen
- From: Stuart Burnfield <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:38:35 +0800
"A terrible thing is happening to the language, he believes,
and at the end of the day, in a globalised world, it is not a
positive communications outcome. In other words, there is
a pox upon our public speech..."
"One day he outlined a plan to a senior public servant, Sandy
Hollway. Why not get a few writers - not Patrick White, just
respectable journeymen - and run courses teaching public
servants how to write? "You'd fill auditoriums," Hollway replied,
confirming Watson's hunch that there was a huge appetite for
change. But why has this language emerged? It is a hard question
and the slender book - which Watson sees as an opening of the
argument rather than the last word, does not entirely answer it."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/31/1067566083688.html?from=storyrh
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Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre
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