Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language
"Every day we are confronted with debased, depleted sludge: in the media, in companies, in the public service, from government, at work...... This new public language ....... is a dead language: devoid of lyric or comic possibility and incapable of emotion, complexity or nuance"
If that strikes a chord with you, then you will want to read this book:
Don Watson's Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language
His book is part diatribe, part reflection on public language and part an attack on those who use these weasel words and thus kill joy, imagination, wit and clarity.
