atw: Re: Calling all respectable journeymen
- From: "Marcus Amann" <marcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:42:15 +1100
I suspect the contemporary "problem" with public language
is the attempt to keep things brief, so we try to pack a
lot into a sentence, but it ends up sounding cryptic.
I just had this experience helping our Marketing Dept.
with their mission statement. It's chock full of buzz
words that makes sense to them, but would make you=20
laugh if you're not part of the team. Buzz words
summarise ideas.
I just received the book for Christmas and will see what
Watson argues.
Cheers,
Marcus Amann
Technical Publications Manager
TOWER Software
-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Burnfield [mailto:sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 December 2003 4:39 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Calling all respectable journeymen
"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=3Dst=
oryrh
---
Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre
**************************************************
To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to =
austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to =
austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject =
field.
To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx =
with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field.
To search the austechwriter archives, go to =
www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter
To contact the list administrator, send a message to =
austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
**************************************************
**************************************************
To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to
austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to
austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field.
To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
"unsubscribe" in the Subject field.
To search the austechwriter archives, go to
www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter
To contact the list administrator, send a message to
austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
**************************************************
Other related posts:
