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Broken English

by Thomas Frank,

The radio was tuned to NPR, the subject was austerity, and the great observers of our political moment were speaking with their customary authority. The conversation wandered to and fro,…

Deliver us from lingo

by Randall VanderMey,

Jargon in the humanities

by James Steel Smith,

Jargon control program

by Laurence Davis Lafore,

Wordwise, I am fedwise up

by Robert W. Wells,

I can’t quite hear you, Doctor

by Joseph A. Brandt,

Rituals

by Edwin H. Blanchard,

The despised individual

by Charles A. (Charles Andrew Armstrong) Bennett,

Professional

by Harper’s Staff,

The linguist

by John Kendrick Bangs,

Editor’s easy chair