[lg policy] more on Language policy ‘gobbledygook’

[Harold Schiffman]

Language policy ‘gobbledygook’

 A Nottingham council chief has been accused of talking gobbledygook
after banning some words  A council chief has been accused of talking
“gobbledygook” after imposing new rules on language banning references
to everyday words and phrases. Nottinghamshire County Council leader
Councillor Kay Cutts banned the phrase “Greater Nottingham” and
insisted the phrase “Core City Area” should be used instead. Her
decision emerged through minutes of a private meeting of a new board
that covers the area, which includes Nottingham city and several
outlying districts looked after by the county. Previously an informal
partnership was in place between the county and city councils but a
formal Core City Board was created, holding its first meeting on June
7.

Minutes from that meeting show the leader “banned” use of the term
Greater Nottingham. The phrase “core city area” will now be used,
council bosses said. Under the heading “language”, the minutes from
the meeting say: “the leader has banned using the terms ‘Greater
Nottingham’ and ‘conurbation’.”  But Labour councillor and opposition
leader Alan Rhodes has branded the move “bureaucratic nonsense” and
said the phrase was “gobbledygook”.  He said: “This suggests a rather
dictatorial stance from the leader of the council. It’s just
gobbledygook, it doesn’t mean anything to anybody. It doesn’t give you
any sense of place or identity to call it a Core City Area.

“It’s bureaucratic nonsense, it’s just local government speak. People
will still call it Greater Nottingham, they know what that means.” But
Cllr Cutts said: “Relationships between the city and county have never
been stronger. In order to ensure we remain consistent, the authority
will now use the term core city area.”

http://www.bigonglasgow.com/2010/language-policy-gobbledygook-153064
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