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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Excelliance]]></category>
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		<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>
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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>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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=377</guid>
		<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>Intelligent client role</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/marketing/intelligent-client-role/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/marketing/intelligent-client-role/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been getting increasingly depressed about not understanding the words. What with that, and having to work through all that stuff about sewage, last week my life as an editor seemed to be at an all-time low. Then, rushing to meet my Friday deadline, I ran into a nightmare 57-word sentence. 
“However, in view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/sustainability/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/sustainability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Businessdictionary.com sent me the definition for ‘sustainability’. I was pleased. This is one of the words that I rarely, if ever, understand and yet it comes up so often in editorial work. I suspect the conspirators who laugh at editorial staff promote the words ‘sustainable’ and ‘sustainability’ just to cause confusion. They come up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainstorm</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/brainstorm/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/brainstorm/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/business-speak/business-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business speak]]></category>
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		<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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