ITisn’t the only field that suffers from waffle. Education too. I am a governor at a local school. I was sent a budget document this week. It ended with the following statement and we are expected to sign our names underneath:
“The Governing Body are agreeing this budget as the financial mechanism to support the education priorities of the school as identified in the School Development Plan and will adhere to the best value principles in spending its school funding allocation.”
Which means:
“The governors approve this plan.”
I wonder if someone gets paid to write this guff. And whether they are paid by the word. I suppose I shall have to close my eyes and sign it while muttering under my breath.
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I absolutely agree. Having been a college professor for many years, I had come to a conclusion that students expect that by using flowery language and “sophisticated” vocabulary (that they get by checking the thesaurus on a normal word document), they can get a passing grade even though the sentence makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.