Death Sentence, his best-selling book about the decay of public language won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, another best-seller, was published in His most recent book American Journeys won the Age Non-Fiction and Book of the Year Awards in · Don Watson can bear it no longer. In Death Sentence, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, he takes a blowtorch to the words – and their users – who kill joy, imagination and clarity. Scathing, funny and brilliant, Death Sentence is a small book of profound weight – and timeliness. Don Watson's 'Death Sentence' is a well-written, intelligent, insiders view of the way language is used and mis-used. I loved it! His many illustrations of how English is badly written and spoken - not just the dynamics of an evolving language, but really BAD useage - proved a fascinating read for one such as this reader who was taught parsing in www.doorway.ru by:
Don Watson told Hamish Fitzsimmons, the decay of public language is more acute now, than ever. Death Sentence, you speak about the language of management creeping into the public and political. Don Watson (born ) is an Australian author, screenwriter, former political adviser and speechwriter. Early life. Watson was born in at Warragul in the Gippsland region of Victoria, and grew up on a Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language (). Don Watson's Death Sentence is scathing, funny and brilliant. In public life the Australian language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politics it lacks all qualifications for the main game. Almost sixty years ago, George Orwell described the decay [ ].
Don Watson can bear it no longer. In Death Sentence, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, he takes a blowtorch to the words and their users who kill joy, imagination and clarity. Scathing, funny and brilliant, Death Sentenceis a small book of profound weight and timeliness.". Don Watson is one of Australia s best-known writers and public intellectuals. For more than twenty-five years he has written books, essays, and reviews for the stage and television. For part of his life he was a political satirist and for another part a political speechwriter, including four years with Paul Keating, the former Labor Prime. Death Sentence, his book about the decay of public language, was also a best seller and won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year. Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words was published in and continued to encourage readers to renounce what he perceives to be meaningless corporate and government jargon that is spreading throughout Australia and embrace meaningful, precise language.
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