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		<title>World leaders network on exclusive ‘facebook’ site</title>
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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>Even business-speak can age and die</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<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>Undertaking sewers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The desperate ravings of an editor who doesn't understand the words anymore as he wades his way through copy on sustainable drainage systems and the like.]]></description>
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		<title>Targeting my market</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/targeting-my-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been using Google Analytics to measure visits to my blog. Every week I discover that new users are checking the site, but are they coming back? Then I found out about this thing called Blogpulse.com which tells you ‘what’s hot and what’s not’ in the blogosphere. I was surprised to see that editorial issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pesky politics</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/pesky-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My world this week has been turned upside down by distractions at Westminster. It’s been quite difficult to think of anything else with all this wondering who’s going when and why. And then – having to choose who to represent me at the European Parliament. Such a long list of candidates! Took me ages to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banking on pretentious language</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 09:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life just gets more and more terrifying, doesn’t it? If you thought swine flu and climate change were scary, then gird yourself for the terror of a bank holiday weekend. If you’re planning to leave home, you’d better think again. Statistics show that you’re more than likely to “face delays” as you “brave the chaos”.
Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The trough of recession</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/the-trough-of-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management consultants are using bad writing to call on the government to give big business more tax breaks.]]></description>
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		<title>A disease that spreads throughout Jobcentre Plus</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/depressed-britons-buoyed-up-by-wormpit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britons are – according to the pollsters this week – more pessimistic about their country’s economy than the people of other ‘leading’ nations. And Stephen Roach, Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, has warned of:
“a further destabilising outbreak of asset bubbles”.
Of course I don’t understand these words, but I suspect it means that we’re all going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G20: the science of economics and the art of spin</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/the-science-of-economics-and-the-art-of-spin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was only about a week ago that the news was full of foreboding, doom, depression, debate on quantitative easing and pictures of Gordon Brown, frowning like a constipated puppy next to headlines about deficit forecasts. But now we have all been saved (again) apparently – or have we? Could it just be that very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developments are inevitable</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/developments-are-inevitable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been out in cyberspace again, trying to find meanings for some of the expressions I get stuck on.
I wasn’t going to; I was going to give up.  Then an old friend emailed me about my blog. She’s an editor too and she confessed that she doesn’t understand the words either. So I’m not [...]]]></description>
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