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Hendrickson is a poet and a productive author of books on language, among them Literary Life and Other Curiosities (Viking, 1981), American Talk (Viking, 1986; Penguin, 1987), and the Facts On File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origin (FOF, 1987), the last of which was favorably reviewed in VERBATIM [XV, 4,27].
To some extent, these social aspects of language are accounted for in Cursing in America , but the study is married by the lack of up-to-date data: some of the more interesting tables result from surveys done in the late 1970s, and one can be certain that things have changed markedly since then.
Mansfield acknowledged Slate 's growly legal language was much harder to find, but said that when you read it, it was "frankly more ominous" than Metabolife's growly legal language.
By the beginning of October, if not before, federal bureaucrats are supposed to have put into place the first elements of the government's Plain Language Initiative, which aims to make the government "more responsive, accessible, and understandable in its communications with the public."
What I hope people will do is what we're doing here--airing issues, exploring them critically, interrogating our own preconceptions about language, broadening our understanding about how we use language and how we'd like it to be used.
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