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Gobbledygook: How Cliches, Sludge, and Management-Speak are Strangling Our Public Language
Don Watson
This blistering - and often very funny - attack on how cliches, sludge and management-speak are wrecking our public language will chime with logophiles everywhere.
176 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 15, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9781843543596 |
| Publishers | Atlantic Books |
| Pages | 176 |
| Dimensions | 130 × 196 × 13 mm · 170 g |
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