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' The government believes it can save another $5 million by cancelling all support for adjectives.
To explain, let's take a look at the following sentence from a spelling exercise: "The boneheaded government is really, really dumb to do this."
Under the Conservative cost-cutting proposal, literacy programs would reduce this to: "The government is dumb."
Writes Baird, "The message is maintained, but expressed more succinctly. Indiscriminate use of adjectives consumes more ink, paper, typing time, etc. It's a completely and totally and monstrously ridiculous misuse of resources." '
I don't normally read the newspaper, but this article at work caught my eye, and I laughed.
See the full thing here:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1159998616401
To explain, let's take a look at the following sentence from a spelling exercise: "The boneheaded government is really, really dumb to do this."
Under the Conservative cost-cutting proposal, literacy programs would reduce this to: "The government is dumb."
Writes Baird, "The message is maintained, but expressed more succinctly. Indiscriminate use of adjectives consumes more ink, paper, typing time, etc. It's a completely and totally and monstrously ridiculous misuse of resources." '
I don't normally read the newspaper, but this article at work caught my eye, and I laughed.
See the full thing here:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1159998616401