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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.bush
- Subject: Re: Bush wins doublespeak award
- Message-ID: <98743@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 22:52:12 GMT
- References: <D2150056.j7s2ki@erics.infoserv.com>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
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- In article <D2150056.j7s2ki@erics.infoserv.com>, erics@infoserv (Eric S. Smith) writes:
- >George Bush won this year's Doublespeak Award, given annually by the
- >National Council of Teachers of English for "public figures who have
- >perpetrated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive or euphemistic".
- >William Lutz, chairman of the council's Doublespeak Committee, cited
- >three examples:
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- None of the examples were much in the way of doublespeak. Just lies.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu) "[George Bush] is a man
- who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple." --Jim Hightower
-