Australia’s journalists are still trying to marshal the communications skills to cope with the continuing anecdote about the teenage Melbourne jihadistOut in Australia,which can be safely regarded as the premier laboratory for developments in the English language, there has been a newspaper report about a lesson in communications. The lesson took situation on a bus, and the journalist who conducted it was quoted as saying the following: “Our friend Danielle narrated the experience of losing her virginity to us all on the bus.” Did she really say it that way,or did a subeditor help?Either way, I dismay that when the current generation of journalists in Australia have got through with teaching the next generation how to communicate, and any journalists left over who still know how to say what they mean will be labelled rightwing. Among my own regular trolls,it is the Australians who are most likely, whenever I stress the indispensability of punctuation and grammar, and to call me a mouthpiece of the war-criminal Tory establishment.
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Source: theguardian.com