My cousin, a career-Civil Servant, emailed me the following recently. I have come across almost every phrase in my work and, though I am loathed to admit it, have used some of the phrases myself (the horror!). Enjoy.
Advice Please !
I don’t have a clue what to do with this. See also Give me a steer on that and Run it past me.
A few thoughts …
Thank you for showing me this piece of work. It is utter rubbish for the following reasons.
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This week I came across an email about the Bulwer-Lytton prize for bad writing - this year awarded to Molly Ringle for her description of a lovers' kiss:
For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss--a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil.
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The world of journalism lost one of its stalwarts this week with the passing of Graeme Hunt. Not only was he a brilliant writer and dogged researcher, he was an impassioned industry mentor - my first mentor to be exact.
Graeme took me under his wing as a student working part-time at the National Business Review. Under his tutelage I learnt to write confidently, extended my vocabulary (often debating the use of words that, in my naiveté, had never heard before) and became a fairly competent researcher.
Over the past few months we have seen a dramatic shift in the reporting of high-profile court cases. Television coverage straight from the courtroom, the introduction of online social media commentary and a mix of Disney-like villains in the defendant box, has resulted in some dramatic storytelling.
The recent David Bain retrial, Clayton Weatherston murder trial and (to a lesser degree) the Taito Phillip Field fraud trial, caught the public’s attention in a manner we have not seen for quite some time.
