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Subject Online journalism and the abuse of language
Posted 1/18/2005; 12:04 PM by Tom Wilson
Last Modified 1/18/2005; 12:04 PM by Tom Wilson
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The online newsletter, the Weblog, the press release, the discussion forum are all prone to use the English language in curious ways (it's probably just the same for French, German and any other language, of course!), but this little gem takes the biscuit:

A survey has found that while users are satisfied with the e-government services they have tried, but that it can be hard to find the service you need

Wonderful, eh? Does no one edit this stuff? You'll find it at ZDNet UK site.

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