I AM the TIME Person of the Year for 2006

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Verbal Diarrhoea - A must read for MBA's applying for jobs

One of the winners of the Golden Bull award in the Plain English Campaign's annual awards is the recruitment agency Wheale, Thomas, Hodgins plc. One of their job adverts had the following phrases (HT: www.plainenglish.co.uk):

Our client is a pan-European start-up leveraging current cutting edge I.P. (already specified) with an outstanding product/value solutions set. It is literally the right product, in the right place at the right time… by linking high-value disparate legacy systems to achieve connectivity between strategic partners/acquisition targets and/or disparate corporate divisions. The opportunity exists to be the same (i.e. right person etc. etc) in a growth opportunity funded by private equity capital that hits the 'sweet-spot' in major cost driven European markets.

Donald Rumsfield has been a previous winner of the "Foot and Mouth" award given by this campaign for his famous "known unknown" statement:

...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.