http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/talking-the-town-don-watsons-bendable-learnings-launch/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/talking-the-town-don-watsons-bendable-learnings-launch/#comment-40244 AR Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:56:10 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/talking-the-town-don-watsons-bendable-learnings-launch/#comment-40244 I don't believe that "The public accepts it when politicians speak in this “unbelievably dreary and monotonous way”" - they have little, read NO, choice as it is so common in the public sphere. Some of the worst offenders at the moment are senior police officers. It seems to result in flacks & hacks being s0 intent on saying nothing offensive or actionable that they say nothing at all, at least not in anything approaching standard English. Orwell would not have believed it. I don’t believe that “The public accepts it when politicians speak in this “unbelievably dreary and monotonous way”” - they have little, read NO, choice as it is so common in the public sphere. Some of the worst offenders at the moment are senior police officers.
It seems to result in flacks & hacks being s0 intent on saying nothing offensive or actionable that they say nothing at all, at least not in anything approaching standard English.
Orwell would not have believed it.

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