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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>
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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>Chinese English: English Chinese</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/teachers/chinese-english-english-chinese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<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>
				<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>Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/sustainability/</link>
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		<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>
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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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		<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>Web writing gone wrong</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/marketing/web-writing-gone-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/marketing/web-writing-gone-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 06:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would think that after at least ten or 15 years of the web people would know that brief is good and justified text is difficult to read online. I don’t want to get sued, but I have to say it&#8217;s just as well  this training company doesn’t teach web writing or plain English. And [...]]]></description>
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