Weasel Words

Slashdot had an interesting post yesterday about the Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words. It mentions the recent book Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak are Strangling Our Public Language and its Australian author’s website, where people can submit examples, such as:

‘Heard on a Virgin flight from Brisbane to Sydney: “for your convenience, the cabin will be pressurised”. How about, “so you don’t die, the cabin will be pressurised” or just, “the cabin will be pressurised”?’

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