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This reminded me of the section about "Clutter" in the book "On writing well": > Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.
by SimonSword 7y ago
This reminded me of the section about "Clutter" in the book "On writing well":
> Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. When the Digital Equipment Corporation eliminated 3,000 jobs its statement didn’t mention layoffs; those were “involuntary methodologies.” When an Air Force missile crashed, it “impacted with the ground prematurely.”
- docdeek 7y ago> When an Air Force missile crashed, it “impacted with the ground prematurely.” When I was a youngster in the Army Cadets in Australia I was told by one of the regular Army seargeants that no one in his company was ever “lost”. They could be “temporarily spatially displaced” but getting lost was strictly forbidden.
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoI like how in Kerbal Space Program, you don't crash, you "lithobrake". Like airbraking only on something with a bit more resistance.
- sethammons 7y agoI had a science teacher who would kill mice before feeding them to his snake. His method was "rapid deceleration" (he threw them at the ground).
- WorldPeas 7y agoOur science teacher in the 7th grade made a model coliseum out of foam-core and would release crickets into it for her lizards to eat during homeroom
- sethammons 7y agoThat's fantastic haha.
- therockspush 7y agoMore Air Force jargon, every now and then something on the plane had to be malletized.