Wow, talk about your weasel language ...

[BlackShanglan]

Check out the duck-and-dive on Maj. Gen. Michael Rochelle, commander of the Army Recruiting Command:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/06/17/military.in.schools.ap/index.html

His comments are about halfway down, just above the "Awareness Campaigns" header. I love the politician's rhetoric in this statement:

Asked about aggressive recruiters targeting young people, he said: "I would certainly hope that we are harassing no one. A recruiter today has to contact roughly 100 people before they can generally get one of them to sit down and listen to the Army story. ... I'm not asking my recruiters to be any less aggressive. I would not wish for them to be overbearing or annoying."

Beautiful use of the "ask/tell" verbs for not being less aggressive and the "hope/wish" verbs for not being harassing or overbearing.

Sorry. I'm a language geek. I just love this sort of thing.

Shanglan

 

[cloudy]

Check out the duck-and-dive on Maj. Gen. Michael Rochelle, commander of the Army Recruiting Command:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/06/17/military.in.schools.ap/index.html

His comments are about halfway down, just above the "Awareness Campaigns" header. I love the politician's rhetoric in this statement:



Beautiful use of the "ask/tell" verbs for not being less aggressive and the "hope/wish" verbs for not being harassing or overbearing.

Sorry. I'm a language geek. I just love this sort of thing.

Shanglan

Wonderful use of the "shuck-n-jive," no?

 

[Liar]

Sorry. I'm a language geek. I just love this sort of thing.

Shanglan

I just ate my way through Sonja K Foss' teachings on language analysis. I could yap about intentional and unintentional markers in the schtuff people say for hours. But I just might bore myself to death doing so.