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Sir,-Some of your readers may be interested in this Leader Note I saw recently in the Manchester Guardicn.
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(Wellington).
LWe hope mg all will be. Here is the quotation.-Ed.: tf Maury Maverick, chairman of the United States Smaller War Plants Corporation, is a man deserving of praise. He has just been denouncing long memoranda and what he calls "gobbledegook language." He ha: told his subordinates that "anyone using the words ‘activation’ or ‘implementation’ will be shot." He does not like "patterns," "‘effectuating," "dynamics," and he begs that he should not hear any more about "pointing up" programmes and "finalising" contracts that "stem from" district, regional, or Washington "levels." Not all these have yet taken hold among us but, given time, they will. And the others we know too well. Is there anyone in our own civil service, temafy orf permanent, who will follow Maverfox? It is one thing te plead with the Prime Minister for simple English; it is another to expose the offending words. For the sad thing is that many of those with most love for the horrid jargon of war government really think that they are writing simply.]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 274, 22 September 1944, Page 5
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