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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460367" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0006 Weasel Words</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s such fun spotting them –<br>this should be built into the syllabus<br>of every English class: to con the cons; <br>sharpens the mind, too –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">those words that cloak deceit, <br>prevarication, ignorance, <br>evade the point of a discussion, <br>evade answering the vital question and questioner, <br>simplify the complex, <br>complicate the simple…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘the real point is..’<br>say they, switching the agenda<br>to the home ground of their local thought, <br>‘more to the point is…’<br>‘more importantly…’ (that’s smart..) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">said quickly (that's the trick<br>of weasel words - make them seem<br>more like an um or er or hello or throat-clear<br>or, just some punctuation mark) ..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and anyone who says<br>‘it’s absolutely clear…’<br>should be frogmarched off<br>to the Absolute, his, her, itself<br>to answer in person for their arrogance..<br>the rest of us left, of course, to guess that<br>if they say that… it just ain’t…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and now, there are ‘mission statements’ –<br>confronted with some cruel inhumanity<br>perpetrated on the innocent individual or group<br>by some institution, public, private -<br>a ‘spokesman’ solemnly reels off<br>the high ideals they stand by to deliver, <br>which just happen to be totally<br>at odds with the (often unmentioned) <br>suffering caused to some (better unmentioned...) human being..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">pop goes a good old weasel in the football press<br>today: “We take this area of regulation<br>very seriously. When we find evidence<br>of breaches of rules and regulations, <br>we investigate thoroughly” – you bet they do; <br>but how about that ‘when we find’? <br>try ‘when we seek to find’…<br>I rest my case. And so would they too, if they could..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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this should be built into the syllabus
of every English class: to con the cons; 
sharpens the mind, too –

those words that cloak deceit, 
prevarication, ignorance, 
evade the point of a discussion, 
evade answe..."></div>
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