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Me, write jargon? . . . No way!

8th August 1981, Page 17
8th August 1981
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'MY DISLIKE of clichés and gobbledegook is shared by a merry wag who signs himself Albert J. Spagthorpe, managit director of Spagthorpe Lorries "builders of fine lorries since 1927". He hails from Irkby-onYuk and told me how he burne the ears off lrkby Rotary Club i an after-luncheon talk.

He poured scorn on constan rotating phrases such as "meaningful dialogues", "open-ended dialogues", "thil moment in time" and "no way "I am sick to death of career paths, ongoing situations and the other mumbo-jumbo that illiterate and half-baked press officers inflict on me," he stormed. "I won't suffer midAtlantic jargon at any price. More people need to start calli a truck a bloody waggon. This jargon disease introduced by fellow captains of industry is highly contagious but no way will I succumb."