by Evan LaBuzetta | Nov 6, 2016 | language use, the perils of business language
Political writing is a huge topic, of course, but I want to focus on one particular hazard that hopefully won’t come across as a purely partisan opinion. It has to do with slogans. Noun verb ambiguity–the so-called “ambicategoricality...
by Evan LaBuzetta | Aug 19, 2016 | language use, the perils of business language
“Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood.” If you look around online, you’ll find some version of this quote attributed to Robert Lewis Stevenson, William Howard Taft, Epictetus, and probably others. A...
by Evan LaBuzetta | Jun 29, 2016 | language use, the perils of business language
I’d like to take a position that runs counter to my own professional interests (and, honestly, the urgings of my soul). We shouldn’t focus too much on “errors” in English. I, of all people, understand the temptation to point them out. But...