"Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know."
"Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say"
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Source: Don Watson (2003). “Death sentence: the decay of public language”, Alfred A. Knopf
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