When words fail
Subtitle: how the public interest becomes neither public nor interesting
By: Tony Proscio.
Contributors: Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.
Publisher: Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Endowments -- Officials and employees -- Language; English language -- Jargon
Other titles: How the public interest becomes neither public nor interesting.
First sentence: Several years ago, under the title In Other Words, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation issued what we called, in a subtitle, "a plea for plain speaking in foundations."
Description: A critique of jargon and gibberish used in place of straightforward language to describe ideas and projects typically funded by foundations; real-world, sometimes amusing, examples drive the point home.
Table of contents: pagenum: 5
class: part
title: Foreward; pagenum: 9
title: Baffled Beyond Words