Blogs about: Weasel Words

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... Okay. Now what?

foxsmoker wrote 1 month ago: Alright then. The novel’s been printed. Parents are reading, it’ll be a little while bef … more →

Tags: General Befuddleduckery, character, Editing, Freedom, indecisión, Manuscript, new, Novel, Planning

Violent Pigs Shame British Police

Peter Reynolds wrote 3 months ago: There have always been bullies and violent individuals in the police.  Much has been done to reduce … more →

Tags: Politics, Assault, Breach of trust, Brutal, Bullies, Criminal, Cynical, Disbanded, DUMB PLOD

Bad words1 comment

Michael Dennis wrote 4 months ago: Did another open-mic poetry gig last night, this time in Leicester. I’d never been to the venue bef … more →

Tags: Life Lived, Putting It Out There, Poetry, Idiots

Weasel words exposing bias

thebittercritic wrote 6 months ago: It’s no secret that Lyle Denniston, now writing for the SCOTUS Blog, has a liberal bias.  His … more →

Tags: lyle denniston

Roget's Brandesaurus – Opening entries

Alec Law wrote 9 months ago: Brandosaurus Rex Lumbering over grown reptile distinguished by slimey texture, herd mentality and ex … more →

Tags: Roget's Brandesaurus, Bad, socie

Adult content10 comments

Steve wrote 10 months ago: StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking web site that enables one to record interesting web pages one ha … more →

Tags: language and usage, Adult Content, adult shops, Euphemisms, Maturity, Porn, Synchroblog

More weasel words - "moderate"

Steve wrote 10 months ago: After commenting on the article on weasel words at the Mattress Police (see previous post) I was str … more →

Tags: Africa, language and usage, Politics, Clemens Kapuuo, Moderate, Moderates, Namibia

Weaselly Slips of the Tongue2 comments

V wrote 10 months ago: >Weasel Words, Euphemisms, Doublespeak and the Concealment of Truth This is an essay I wrote for … more →

Tags: Politics, study, writing, Don Watson, Donald Rumsfeld, Education Department of Victoria, Euphemisms, John Howard, Kevin Rudd

Weasel words

Nathan wrote 11 months ago: I was driving to work this morning listening to my local ABC news. Which I think is the best local n … more →

Tags: Life, Politics, media, language, Croc, K-Rudd, abc, EPA

What are Weasel Words?

efrenefren wrote 1 year ago: Weasel words are deliberately misleading or ambiguous elements of language used to avoid making a st … more →

Tags: efrenefren, Weasel, WorDs

Tools - Weasel Word Stripper

asherose wrote 1 year ago: The weasel word is your enemy as a writer. It weakens the structure of the story, makes the writer s … more →

Tags: writing, Editing

BCC to stimulate local economy by introducing 450 workers to the employment market2 comments

BristleKRS wrote 1 year ago: A reorganisation could lead to the loss of up to 450 jobs at Bristol City Council, a spokesman has c … more →

Tags: Bristol, Bristol Shitty Council, Municipally Yours, Newsburst, PFI, Carpetbaggers & Privatisers, Political Funding, Financial Sleaze & Corruption, Politik, Annie Hudson, Bristol City Council

To those of you who are helping create the world-wide surveillance uber-state

walker wrote 1 year ago: To those of you who work for Google, Cisco, and the other corporations who are assisting China and … more →

Tags: Tibet-in-exile, tibet, Tibet under China, Surveillance, censorship, Hypocrisy

Death Sentence – The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson2 comments

Nina wrote 1 year ago: I have a colleague who cannot express a thought without using the words ‘stakeholder’, ‘road map’ or … more →

Tags: Books, death sentence, Don Watson, language, Corporate Speak

The Art of Debate

islamfac wrote 1 year ago: The Art of Debate Here are some methods and etiquettes of debating issues. Clarity: Avoid use of t … more →

Tags: Forum help, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Atheism, Debate, University, Religion, Sikhism

Dedicated to corporate psychopaths everywhere1 comment

andsaywedid wrote 1 year ago:     Get this on a T-Shirt at my CafePress store… … more →

Tags: My Creations, office, stfu, Boss, corporate psychopath, i hate my job

Extreme Poverty in New Zealand4 comments

feww wrote 1 year ago: New Zealanders are pathological liars. And the worst of them work for the “government.” … more →

Tags: Child Poverty, colonial government, Hunger, mass deception, New Zealand, The Rich, Europeans, Humanity First International, KidsCan charity

Hamlet's Soliloquy in Weasel Words - my next short film2 comments

andsaywedid wrote 1 year ago: I’m staying with my weasel words theme for this post. I am in the throes of writing a short fi … more →

Tags: My Creations, Shakespeare, hamlet, Filmmaking

"pls. action": shite emails I have known

andsaywedid wrote 1 year ago: I only had one email when I logged on to my computer at work this morning. Odd, I thought to myself. … more →

Tags: eMail


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