Thursday, December 01, 2016

Close enough …

… How 'Close' Is Your 'Proximity'? - Where I Go - Zócalo Public Square. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)



This is what Orwell was getting at in "Politics and the English Language." Bureaucrats seem incapable of plainspeak. They can never use a 10-cent word if there's a 50-cent one available.

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