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	<title>The Surgery &#187; Propper english</title>
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		<title>Going Forward on Public Transport: an Exercise in Weasel Words</title>
		<link>http://www.drron.com.au/2009/06/26/going-forward-on-public-transport-an-exercise-in-weasel-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving home tonight, I was listening to the Victorian Premier John Brumby&#8217;s announcement about the preferred tenderers to run Melbourne&#8217;s rail and tram networks.
Mr Brumby, and indeed his speech writers, need to understand that the world exists, as indeed the public transport system exists, in three dimensions of space and one dimension of time.  We&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Ron blogs, on the 20th inst..</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of my friends delight in employing arcane, archaic and obscure language in everyday speech.
You know&#8230; the type of people that crunch through a cryptic crossword over lunch, or argue over whether or not a full stop belongs at the end of an abbreviation.
I confess that I enjoy using our language to communicate, and delight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Definition of a Call Centre</title>
		<link>http://www.drron.com.au/2008/10/05/definition-of-a-call-centre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my favourite definition in Watson&#8217;s Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Clichés, Cant &#38; Management Jargon by Don Watson, a Vintage book published by Random House Australia P/L, copyright Don Watson 2004:
call centre:  A place where calls are &#8216;attended to&#8217;.  Attending to calls is offshorable: you may think the &#8216;first available consultant&#8217; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Adventures of Action Item Man</title>
		<link>http://www.drron.com.au/2008/07/01/the-adventures-of-action-item-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But wait! There&#8217;s more!
In order for Action Item Man to own this challenge, he needs to be goal-oriented and results driven.
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		<title>&#8220;You can&#8217;t have your cake and eat it too&#8230; so step up to the plate and face the music.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.drron.com.au/2008/06/30/you-cant-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too-so-step-up-to-the-plate-and-face-the-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gold, Jerry, absolute gold:
Weasel Words is a website dedicated to those &#8220;who have silently wept into a crumpled copy of their company&#8217;s mission statement, for teachers who want to work in classrooms and not customer service points, and for all those who have been underpinned by an innovative, value adding, creative, sustainable, diverse and optimised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Ron tackles apostrophe catastrophe&#8217;s on ABC Radio National</title>
		<link>http://www.drron.com.au/2008/04/09/dr-ron-tackles-apostrophe-catastrophes-on-abc-radio-national/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tune-in to your local ABC Radio National on Friday 11/04/08 at 5:55 P.M. to hear me rant about the use and abuse of the apostrophe.
Apostrophes do two things, that&#8217;s all: they make contractions, and they make possessives.
ABC Melbourne: 621 kHz AM. Follow this link for other ABC stations in your area.  Many thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melbourne pedant Dr Ron Smith talks Indefinite Articles on ABC&#8217;s Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.drron.com.au/2007/11/26/melbourne-pedant-dr-ron-talks-indefinite-articles-on-abcs-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tune-in to your local ABC Radio National today at 5:55 P.M. to hear me rant about indefinite articles and the letter &#8216;h&#8217;.
In this installment about the demise of the English language, I get angry about people who use an &#8220;an&#8221; in front of words with a pronounced letter &#8216;h&#8217;: an horrendous, an horrific and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Ron Rants-On-Demand: ABC Radio National</title>
		<link>http://www.drron.com.au/2007/05/29/dr-ron-rants-on-demand-abc-radio-national-today-at-555-pm-on-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drron.com.au/2007/05/29/dr-ron-rants-on-demand-abc-radio-national-today-at-555-pm-on-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 05:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to tune-in to your local ABC Radio National today at 5:55 P.M. as I rant violently about something that bugs the bejeezus out of me.
Some of you may recall my sporadic contributions to Brett deHoedt&#8217;s successful podcast &#8220;Hootville&#8221; (R.I.P.), in which I waxed lyrical about the demise of the English language.
On this occasion, [...]]]></description>
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