100 Days: The gift that the keeps on taking
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in a book out next week, tells of congratulating freshman Sen. Obama on a phenomenal speech. Without a hint of conceit, Mr. Obama replied, 'Harry, I have a gift.'"
Daniel Henninger on our gift's first 100 days at The Wall Street Journal.
"The first sign that [power] is being abused may be the misuse of language. If a politician, a business leader, a pressure group or the PR spokesman for any number of public organisations is not using straightforward language that most of us can understand, we should smell a rat." --John Humphrys, Lost for Words: The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language 13 (2004), via Bryan Garner's Usage Tip of the Day
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"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible." --Jane Austen
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