Bush and blair Are Mangling English

Bush and blair Are Mangling English

　　The English language is being destroyed by a ″deadly virus of management speak″ which has infected the mouths and minds of politicians like Tony Blair and George W. Bush， a leading UK journalist said recently.

　　The British Prime Minister and his ally the U.S. President are mangling the language， destroying its meaning by avoiding the use of verbs， twisting nouns into verbs， and endlessly repeating phrases until they become ″zombified.″

　　″It＇s deeply depressing，″ says John Humphrys， one of Britain＇s leading political journalists and the author of a new book， ″Lost for Words，″.

　　Humphrys picks on Bush -- who once famously used the word ″misunderestimate″--and pokes fun at him as someone who ″often speaks as though English were his second language.″

　　Blair，too，is singled out as a king of language corruption.

　　(Agencies)