The emperor has no verbs

By at 5:27 pm Tuesday, Nov 16

BoingBoing buddy Mike Outmesguine says,
This Reuters story doesn't "misunderestimate" the growing trend of Dilbert-esque corp-speak at the highest offices in the land. George Bush and Tony Blair are taken to task by author John Humphrys for their consistent use of verbless speech to avoid accountability and debate in political discourse and for pounding the meaning out of words like "freedom" and "democracy" through rampant repetition.
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