Militant — a new silencing word
I read an article recently condemning militant environmentalists and I must confess that, jaded though I am, I still let my...
I read an article recently condemning militant environmentalists and I must confess that, jaded though I am, I still let my...
Do you ever get vaguely irritated when you hear people using words like fora when they mean forums? I do,...
Why can't Irish civil servants write plain English? Why is that? Why do they feel the need to use...
I went to a thing last night and it was very, very good. That's right -- a thing. As opposed...
People can be terribly averse to saying exactly what's on their minds, and it's very hard to know why. What's...
Yoll na ammegrach ta herpull yek chenchul fengerach. Sa ef herpullents dar horentser ta blerter frailastsists flen pulanturl trovailhts sa...
I swear to you, I did not make this up. _________________ Our gathra, who cradgies in the manyak-norch, We turry...
I thought it would be useful to plough through the turgid, inflated language of the Garda report on the Swedish...
You can tell at one glance what a journalist thinks of a country by the words he chooses to describe...
The Revenue Commissioners last week wrote to 150,000 people, warning 115,000 of them that they might owe more tax than...