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Marketing Speak or mumbo jumbo talk from Poland? [22]
Thank you Barney for starting this topic, which is dear to my heart, even though I am no longer sure - after reading few pearls here - that I am still on topic. :-)
I read How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen a few years ago.
Certainly, rationality is beleaguered these days. This is one of the last major newspapers in the country not to publish a horoscope. Wheen recalls how he once sneered in his Observer column at the Sunday Times for introducing one. "You can guess the sequel," he says. But non-science, nonsense, the elevation of emotion over fact, is on the rise, whether it's the extraordinary faith in homeopathy or the voodoo economics of the neoliberal right or the healing power of crystals. To read here of Tony and Cherie Blair's rebirthing experience in a Mexican mud bath in 2001 is to be torn between contempt and hilarity.
guardian.co.uk/books/2004/oct/16/society
Polonius is right stressing the fact that - even though the political systems and slogans have changed - there still remains a need and desire to wrap the most trivial concepts in a pompous, absolutely in-comprehensive language.
Yes he is correct here.
Edit
there's no way to say 'we will move forward robustly' in Polish and maintain your dignity
Now that made me smile.
