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Cure needed for pandemic’s verbal virus

Byadmin

The lexicographers are working overtime. New words are being coined, reviewed and added to dictionaries worldwide almost daily. It seems there’s nothing like disasters and pandemics to send the spin doctors into a frenzy of creativity as they try to find ways of cloaking and minimising what is actually happening. Plain speaking is avoided at…

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Let’s be clear about this …

Byadmin

Now, I want to make myself perfectly clear  … There must be no misunderstanding … Make no mistake about this … Blah, blah, blah.  Such well-worn phrases. So overused. Every day, someone, somewhere is prefacing their remarks with such statements of clarity and precision. And they are usually people of great (self-)importance whose pronouncements are…