Weasel Words

by Philip Howard

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195201078
• ISBN13: 9780195201079
• Release Date: February 1979
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

How good are your communication skills?

How often do you use words such as "feedback," "basically," or "simplistic" ? Are you sure you know exactly what they mean, and does the person being addressed interpret them in exactly the same sense that you are using them (provided you know what they mean, of course)? Communication skills are important, and this book deals with "weasel words," words that originally meant one thing and now mean quite another. With great wit, the author discusses 44 such words. It also alerts us that language changes, and we have to keep up with it along with other changes in the world.