PRINCE CHARLES PRATTLES IN GOBBLEDEGOOK TO PROMOTE BASIC ENGLISH
The heir to the British Throne wrote the foreword to "A Decade Of Jargon & Gobbledegook." Book is published by the Plain English Campaign to emphasize some of the worst examples of "officialise" during the past ten years.
Prince Charles' contribution was couched in deliberately verbose language that deliberately took forever to make clear that he backs more plain English and less nonsense in bureaucratic writing.
"Due to a frequent regrettable inability to prevent my presence in other locations, I find that I must convey to you goodwill in a correspondence format", he wrote. "How many of us, I wonder, when, faced with pretentious gobbledegook and, empty jargon, experience a kick-start into despair mode? My feelings to you all are, attitudianally, those of enormous encouragement ..."
Which confirms that pompous prose gives everybody a Royal pain.
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