by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems we haven’t learned much as we still read stuff that makes no sense.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A long time ago, I heard a political commentator read part of a political party’s platform. Parties used to do these platforms to inform everyone of what they were saying. The commentator would read a sentence and then remark, “This is amazing. All these words are in the dictionary!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n What did the words mean? Nothing. In my research on this phrase, I found, “Vagueness is a failure of intent. It is a deliberate, highly calculated use of perfect grammar to say absolutely nothing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aha, use words (all of whom are in the dictionary) to say nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alas, I haven’t read any party platforms recently. Do they still do that? Some companies have their manifestos or policy statements, but I haven’t seen any platforms lately. Still, I read many things. I work in and around our Federal government. I have read too many things where most (not all, but most) of the words were in the dictionary. The documents said nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Must we do this? Must we engage in this foolishness? Come on folks, we can do better. Let’s do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips It seems we haven’t learned much as we still read stuff that makes no sense. A long time ago, I heard a political commentator read part of a political party’s platform. Parties used to do these platforms to inform everyone of what they were saying. The commentator would read a sentence and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,484,339,243,416,66,5],"tags":[154,485,341,244,417,186,128],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-meaning","category-mistakes","category-reading","category-vocabulary","category-word","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-meaning","tag-mistakes","tag-reading","tag-vocabulary","tag-word","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4619,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/4619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}