Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words

by Don Watson
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The brilliant companion volume to the Book of 2003: DEATH SENTENCE.

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When the prime minister speaks of core and non-core election promises, your boss asks you to commit to an involuntary career event (you're fired), and hospitals refer to negative patient outcomes (you're dead), you know you are in a world gone mad. Politicians and managers not meaning what they say is nothing new, but these days it seems they are also incapable of saying what they mean. Groaning with platitudes and cliches, their words kill meaning and twist the truth. Spontaneity is rare, expressiveness and imagination long dead. It's time to fight back.If you are curious to know what 'plausible deniabilty' and 'asset footprint' actually mean - or if you want to mock the very idea - this is the book for you. An essential reference for victims and saboteurs, Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words is a serious weapon in the struggle against those whose words kill brain cells and sink hearts. Sobering, scathing and wickedly funny, this companion to the bestselling DEATH SENTENCE flushes out political and managerial weasels and their hollow words, lampoons linguistic abuse and strikes a much-needed blow for truth and clarity.

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