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Old 18th Apr 2013, 14:56
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In the late '60s I read an article in Time Magazine regarding meaningless phrases.
It was written by a Canadian journalist who had been reporting on a politician, during his election campaign.
He realised that in his (long) speeches the guy didn't actually say anything meaningful.
Picking out meaningless words the guy had used, the journalist came up with a three column list of about thirty of these words. By inserting any one word from columns 1, 2 and 3 at various points in a sentence, transformed the sentence into an impressive but meaningless phrase.
The practice has been around for a long time!
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