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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>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/even-business-speak-can-age-and-die/</link>
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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>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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		<title>Plain English management</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/plain-english-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been considering my prospects in editorial work. Humanity will always need people who can make sense of business speak and political nonsense and rewrite it in plain English. But the trouble is I have so much trouble understanding the words, I can barely lay claim to being one of those valuable people any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainstorm</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/brainstorm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never enjoyed the idea of taking a ‘thought shower’ with my colleagues, although some of them aren’t so bad and are at times even likeable.]]></description>
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		<title>Business terms</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/business-speak/business-terms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I subscribed to the daily email from Businessdictionary.com. Every day, they send me a business term. As a struggling editor, I thought this might help me understand the words. Or should I say: “enable me to be better able to further my understanding of a whole raft of business words and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloudy horizons</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/cloudy-horizons/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/cloudy-horizons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blue-sky thinking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am onto them - the conspirators that laugh at editorial staff everywhere. The clues are in the obscure words and phrases that they try to cloud our thinking with. This week: 'blue-sky thinking' and 'horizon scanning'.]]></description>
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		<title>Writing to be obscure</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/writing-to-be-obscure/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/writing-to-be-obscure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More evidence to support my conspiracy theory - that there is a plot to laugh at editorial staff everywhere. Look at the way politicians write. It is clearly designed to deter lazy journalists from bothering to ready it.]]></description>
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		<title>Globishisation</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/international/globishisation/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/international/globishisation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of commentators around at the moment, blaming a lot of the world&#8217;s ills on &#8216;globalisation&#8217;. Perhaps they are right, but does it end there?
A few weeks’ ago, someone called Paolo left a comment on this blog which brought a new language called Globish to my attention. It just goes to show: [...]]]></description>
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