The other managerial class

Martha Bridegam wrote:

 >Alan Hogue wrote:
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  >>http://tinylink.com/?DcPJrP5gvw
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 >Woss a Bex?
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 >Liked this: "And because corporations have no familiarity with the old
 >language of justice and struggle it sounds hollow and dead in their
 >mouths, whether it is or not." Thank heavens, actually. It slows down
 >their astroturf efforts by making their fakeness obvious.
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 >Right, too, about the comparison to Communist language. Seriously,
 >early-'80s Pravda had the same tone as some corporate press releases do
 >now.
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 >/M
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I'm not surprised about Pravda. As the author points out, one reason
people write that way is to give themselves room to hedge if it turns
out they're wrong. I work with quite a few highly-trained bureaucrats
and writing a clear, direct, concrete sentence to one of them almost
feels like an act of sedition. The funny thing is that they learn to
write this way in school, and believe it is good writing.

I may have posted this before, but part of it is highly relevant to this
topic:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/95sep/ets/labo.htm" target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/95sep/ets/labo.htm</a>

....particularly the part where Labov compares examples of lower class
and middle class speech.

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Martha Bridegam wrote:

 >Alan Hogue wrote:
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 >
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  >>http://tinylink.com/?DcPJrP5gvw
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 >Woss a Bex?
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 >

Here's an Austrailian slang dictionary: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.anriintern.com/au_slang/" target="_blank">http://www.anriintern.com/au_slang/</a>

"Have a bex - to settle your self down from some sort of stress
(figuratively not taking a bex which is a drug); usually a cup a tea, a
cry and a good lie down"<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Alan Hogue wrote:

 > Martha Bridegam wrote:
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  > >Alan Hogue wrote:
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   > >>http://tinylink.com/?DcPJrP5gvw
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  > >Woss a Bex?
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<font color=purple> > Here's an Austrailian slang dictionary: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.anriintern.com/au_slang/</font" target="_blank">http://www.anriintern.com/au_slang/</font</a>>
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 > "Have a bex - to settle your self down from some sort of stress
 > (figuratively not taking a bex which is a drug); usually a cup a tea, a
 > cry and a good lie down"

Thx much./M<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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