Comments on: Language change, alternatives and spin http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/marketing/language-change-alternatives-and-spin/ Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:15:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bridget Whelan http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/marketing/language-change-alternatives-and-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Bridget Whelan Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:06:48 +0000 http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=154#comment-66 At this moment I am planning an adult education course on the power of language looking at things as diverse as Jonathan Swift's satires and Obama's speeches and I will definatedly include your earth scorching alternative to climate change (with proper acreditation of course and outline of the arguments)...but it will be rolling out Jan 2010 so not a very speedy PR vehicle .. Scorched earth was Stalin's policy during WWII wasn't it? Destroying everything - food, crops - in the face of the invading German army so they could not live off the land. Of course, it meant that Russian citizens living in the wake lost everything through the action of their own side... At this moment I am planning an adult education course on the power of language looking at things as diverse as Jonathan Swift’s satires and Obama’s speeches and I will definatedly include your earth scorching alternative to climate change (with proper acreditation of course and outline of the arguments)…but it will be rolling out Jan 2010 so not a very speedy PR vehicle ..

Scorched earth was Stalin’s policy during WWII wasn’t it? Destroying everything – food, crops – in the face of the invading German army so they could not live off the land. Of course, it meant that Russian citizens living in the wake lost everything through the action of their own side…

]]> By: Neil Foxlee http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/marketing/language-change-alternatives-and-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Neil Foxlee Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:28:48 +0000 http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=154#comment-64 Ironically, the Guardian's lead editorial this Saturday was published under the heading "climate change", despite Monbiot's article. Ironically, the Guardian’s lead editorial this Saturday was published under the heading “climate change”, despite Monbiot’s article.

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