Eschewing obfuscation now, I'm impressed by your both amusing and
perfect description of media: "sorry ignorant sponges".
If you don't have it copyrighted already, may I use it as a bumper
sticker ?.
;-)
Fernando.
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Unlike murkins, we aren't in the habit of inventing grand and complex
> verbs when we have perfectly simple Saxon ones to do the job. Nor
> would we 'obfuscate' an email - it either is or it isn't.
> My niggle this week - the local fire authority talking about people
> being 'impacted' by fires, when they mean affected - bureaucratic
> nitwits. The media, being the sorry ignorant sponges that they are
> have picked up the term and used it twice in every sentence, assuming
> that it's either correct English or appropriate jargon. I definitely
> have 'issues' with that one.
>
> This one reminds me of my favoritist ever bumper sticker - 'Eschew
> Obfuscation'.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 16/02/2009, at 5:59 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>
>> He probably meant "obfuscate", Fernando. But since he's Aussie, there
>> might be another word of which I am still unaware ;-)
>>
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