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The Gobbledygook Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Jean Aitchison
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Abstract

Gobbledygook, jargon, bureaucratese and legalese – people rail against them all. Can anything be said objectively about these ‘symptoms’ of a ‘diseased’ and ‘degenerate’ English? Is there, indeed a case for surgery?

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Special Features
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English Today , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1986 , pp. 7 - 9
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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