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		<title>World leaders network on exclusive ‘facebook’ site</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/world-leaders-network-on-exclusive-%e2%80%98facebook%e2%80%99-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WELCOM is an exclusive social media networking site for world leaders and the chief executives or the most powerful global corporations. And guess what, they use language that would make any right-thinking editor weep.]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy driven communications</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/strategy-driven-communications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a weapon if it is not ‘of destruction’? A pen perhaps, when it feels like being mightier than the sword? This week, one of the conspirators - those who laugh at editorial staff everywhere - is unmasked.]]></description>
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		<title>snow travel update</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/snow-travel-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
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Some people may be tired of the snow, but I love it. What better excuse to avoid going into work (apart from dysentery or swine flu)?
Then what irony! This week I&#8217;ve been editing content on &#8220;rural accessibility solutions&#8221;.
If you&#8217;re wondering what that means I should tell you that it&#8217;s atechnical term for transport in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headlines and titles</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/headlines-and-titles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civil service and government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Xmas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently taken to task for putting the word ‘poo’ in a headline. Apparently civil servants don’t step in dog poo – they step in dog ‘waste’ or ‘mess’. The furore over my use of the word ‘poo’ infuriated me, but then again it inspired me to compile a list of some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden bollocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was obviously disappointed not to see a single dangling modifier in any of the winning entries for the Golden Bull Awards this week. There were some fantastic examples of bad writing, no doubt about it. But even so, I think the much under publicised – except by the Daily Telegraph – awards misfired on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corrupting language</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week ‘twitter’ was declared the most popular word for 2009. Meanwhile the Public Administration Select Committee published a report called Bad Language: The Use and Abuse of Official Language. Naturally, working for a government agency and being no stranger to social media networking, I was intrigued. Could there be a connection?
Apparently it took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-baked queen</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/half-baked-queen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cameron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to hear David Cameron describe the queen as “half-baked” this week, in a reference to her speech at the state opening of Parliament. Who would have ever expected a Tory leader to insult the monarchy like that? Then I realised his “half-baked” was a dangling modifier, that it might refer to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolving skills</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/evolving-skills/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/evolving-skills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cross-skilling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun has begun to set on my time as a public sector B2B editor. I am peering into the dark abyss of unemployment. There’s a lot of ‘restructuring’ going on where I work. Restructuring in this context means paying management consultants a lot of money to advise who to make redundant. But I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even business-speak can age and die</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/even-business-speak-can-age-and-die/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/even-business-speak-can-age-and-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial claptrap]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[editor]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On my quest to promote a new syntactical structure, I discovered some old words we no longer use, and others that have refused to die out. ]]></description>
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		<title>Comparative conspiracies</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/comparative-conspiracies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may be wondering why I haven’t written about the conspiracy recently – that is the one to make a mockery of editors everywhere, to turn language into meaningless noise, to pollute our every moment with confusing messages and meaningless drivel, to litter our lives with the pointless delusion that we exist for [...]]]></description>
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