Garrett DeOrio
2007-10-05 09:37:12
An equally deep problem here is the way people in so many professions, especially legal, legislative, and “business” (in the narrow sense), have started using language not to elucidate or communicate, but to obfuscate.
If you don’t know how to fix the problems with which you’re faced, you can always use “ten dollar words,” call students “learners,” talk about things like “maximizing potentialities,” and just talk around the problem.
