[VAR-L] Alan Duncan issues memo at DFID banning jargon words such as 'going forward'

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jun 25, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Martin Kaminer wrote:

> Is it my imagination or does this fellow hold the same ministerial post as the protagonist of "In The Loop"?  If so . . . not terribly surprising somehow.  Getting harder and harder to satirize real life.
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> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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>              such as 'going forward'

see

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/About-us/Our-organisation/Ministers/Alan-Duncan/

DFID is the Department for International Development; Duncan is Minister of State for International Development

and yes, the Simon Foster character in _In the Loop_ (played by Tom Hollander) is indeed Minister for International Development.

arnold

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