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To: Ilaine who wrote (2044)3/2/1999 12:56:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 4711
 
I suppose you're right; the jargon-speakers would make better neighbors. If it's purely a matter of listening to the speech, though, I would almost prefer street talk to the oily oversyllabification of the bureaucrat. Street talk is at least designed to communicate. Bureaucrat-speak is usually intended to obfuscate, or to lend an illusion of substance to ideas that have little or no meaning. Reminds me of vegetables: I'd rather eat them raw then overcooked. The ideal, of course, is somewhere in between; finding it is less a matter of finding the right place than of finding the right people within any given place.

I'd forgotten that you lived near DC, and the post wasn't intended as a dig at that location. There are bureaucrats everywhere, and overstuffed jargon is a worldwide plague.
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