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		<title>The end of the blogosphere</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/uncategorized/the-end-of-the-blogosphere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time has come to end this blog. Not because the conspirators are making me or anything like that. But because I’ve come to the conclusion they are winning, and blogging about it won’t change a thing.
You have now reached the end of the blogosphere as I know it. Please click on the back button [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangling modifiers: out and about</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/ambiguous-language/dangling-modifiers-out-and-about/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/ambiguous-language/dangling-modifiers-out-and-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ambiguous language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dangling modifiers become increasingly sinister in seaside towns - and the police are required to be slow.]]></description>
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		<title>Banning words: is it a good idea?</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/blogging/banning-words-is-it-a-good-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that I am not the only person who wants to fight back against the conspirators. Word is on the blogosphere that Lake Superior State University has ‘banished’ some words.
These include shovel-ready – which means ready to be implemented – and teachable moment, which is apparently a lesson.
I was thrilled to see chillaxin’ appear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communicating science</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/communicating-science/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/communicating-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthur Quiller-Couch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Research Unit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climategate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why don't scientists try using communications consultants? I have been trying to get my head round the Climategate scandal – but it’s useless. I don’t understand the words. ]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/world-leaders-network-on-exclusive-%e2%80%98facebook%e2%80%99-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial claptrap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business speak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil service and government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[plain English]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social media networking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WELCOM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Economic Forum]]></category>

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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>Chinese English: English Chinese</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/teachers/chinese-english-english-chinese/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/teachers/chinese-english-english-chinese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[editor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Excelliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[punctuation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading about “high level round table talks” this week left me feeling a touch vertiginous. I began to worry about spinning out of control. The words took on a life of their own, reinventing themselves in my mind. I started to think it was I who coined the natty little word ‘co2ts’. Trouble was I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy driven communications</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/strategy-driven-communications/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/strategy-driven-communications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civil service and government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alastair campbell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hutton]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=444</guid>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[civil service and government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acronyms]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[solutions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
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>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/headlines-and-titles/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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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>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/news/golden-bollocks/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/news/golden-bollocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civil service and government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandy]]></category>
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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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