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Posted on November 19, 2009 |

• Sports Column

By Andy Kirkaldy

Every trade has its jargon. We journalists like to laugh at corporate babble (“We must think outside the box to empower our stakeholders”), edu-speak (“Our youngsters require enhanced child-centered collaborative activities for discovery learning”) and cop talk (“I advised the male subjects to disperse”).

But we too, even humble sports writers, are guilty of jargon, as our Independent proofreaders constantly remind my editor and me.

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