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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>
				<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>
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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>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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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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>Unthanksgiving?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I came across the Unthank Road in Norwich, I have liked the notion of unthanking people – especially the sort of clients who really have no respect for editorial staff or skills, and who describe plain English as ‘dumbing down’.

The trouble is I often smarm up to my clients by thanking them for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-baked queen</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/civil-service-and-government/half-baked-queen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to hear David Cameron describe the queen as “half-baked” this week, in a reference to her speech at the state opening of Parliament. Who would have ever expected a Tory leader to insult the monarchy like that? Then I realised his “half-baked” was a dangling modifier, that it might refer to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolving skills</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/evolving-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun has begun to set on my time as a public sector B2B editor. I am peering into the dark abyss of unemployment. There’s a lot of ‘restructuring’ going on where I work. Restructuring in this context means paying management consultants a lot of money to advise who to make redundant. But I am [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/even-business-speak-can-age-and-die/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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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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