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Julian Burnside takes a lighthearted look at the use and abuse of language – by those whose jobs rely on it the most.

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07 Jun 2010

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"The map is not the territory", Alfred Kozybski "Science and Sanity" 1933, perhaps would be the best précis of Mr. Burnside's oration.

A humble suggestion that perhaps Mr. Burnside would find great pleasure in a study of the science of Korzybski's General Semantics

Francis Reiss
11 June at 12:23PM

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