Kersti Krug wrote:

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I'll share my favourite source with Ross Week's great source on this
topic:

Richard Mitchell (who calls himself The Underground Grammarian), _Less
than Words Can Say_ (1979), Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown and Company.

The book's back covers offers this:
        "In _Less Than Words Can Say_, Richard Mitchell lets rip the
most devastating expose to date of our rampant misuse of English.  A Don
Quixote--Savonarolo might be more apt--of language, he wages war on its
perverters, from teachers to deans to politicians and bureaucrats, whose
consistently overblown prose offers us inanity in the guise of
wisdom....
        "According to Mitchell, this bureaucratic jargon is turning us
into a nation of baffled, inept, frustrated, and--ultimately--violent
people, and the public schools are to blame...."

It goes on.  So does the book.  Great stuff.
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The entire book is available on the Web as well as other writings by
Richard Mitchell at:

The Underground Grammarian
http://members.aol.com/hu4wahz/ug/index.html

Enjoy

Mark Alexander