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Walter Nash
British linguist
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Jargon ... is a therapeutic source of amusement and rage, just as long as you can assure yourself that others are to blame, and that this deplorable linguistic malady is quite beyond your own responsibility and control, like a disease that strikes only the uncleanly.
—Walter Nash, British linguist, Jargon: Its Uses and Abuses, 1993

Posted on March 6, 2000 at 10:03 PM

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