Neil James
Dr Neil James is Executive Director of the Plain English Foundation in Australia, which combines plain language training, editing, and auditing with a public campaign for more ethical language practice. It is also hosting the 2009 PLAIN conference.
Neil has a doctorate in English and has published three books and over fifty articles and essays on language and literature. His latest book, Writing at Work (Allen & Unwin), is on the language of professions. He is currently chair of the International Plain Language Working Group.
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Global Frankness Crisis contributed to the GFC
It’s a little-known fact, but not long ago the Commonwealth Government hired some corporate management consultants to update our national…... Read more
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@EnoTheWonderdog Loads of laughs. He turned 1 on Tuesday and has a highly enthusiastic sense of humour.
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The humourless hysteria of the holier-than-thou
In I Spit On Your Grave, a young woman is gang raped in a remote woodland. She is beaten and tortured…
Cash mobs aren’t so flash
For a moment in the mid-naughties, they were the coolest of all cool social media-fuelled meme-thingos.…
If we wanted reality, we’d turn off the television
“Some day, far into the future, this here machine will become a powerful medium with the potential…
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
