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		<title>Ye olde jargon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randall Munroe, in his XKCD comic, nicely sums up both why you should avoid jargon and why you shouldn&#8217;t worry about it.

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		<title>Writer avoiding crash blossoms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a great post on the New York Time&#8217;s On Language blog about misleading headlines. I&#8217;ve always loved those humorously ambiguous headlines such as &#8220;Man helps dog bite victim,&#8221; or &#8220;Local high school dropouts cut in half.&#8221; It turns out there&#8217;s a term for these bloopers, and they&#8217;re called &#8220;crash blossoms.&#8221;
Mike O’Connell, an [...]]]></description>
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