Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Verbage

[emm03@mirapoint.uow.edu.au]

Yes,
And also 'Utilize' and 'de-escalate'. Two words that were 
coined, I believe during the korean war and are entirely 
redundant.
EM.



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>Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 03:21:29 -0600
>From: "Nero Wolfe" <wolfe19@megsinet.net>  
>Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Verbage  
>To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>
>   Please, don't use that word... Verbage.  The word is
>   a bastardisation of the word verbiage, which means
>   trash word.  Verbage has no "real" definion....
>   Avoid it like the plague ;-)
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>   On 1/15/2003 at 10:41 AM Adam Lawrence wrote:
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>     some of the, not so straight forward verbage, in
>     these standards (in my opinion) is what makes a