Jan 142008
A copper from western Sydney, talking on the ABC about the people who torched a church hall there over the weekend said the suspect was in the nature of a young person.
What kind of press protocols would goad a man to say that? Or was this scrupulous? It looks like the kind of dumb thing young people do, but it could be someone older.
[...] Glum news in The Australian this morning. Some Scottish constables want ‘a return to plain English’. They say people make fun of them when they talk. The Plain English Campaign is also calling on police to use simpler language. And just when I’d learnt the right name for copspeak (see also here). [...]