The speaker of the UK House of Commons gave a witheringly sarcastic put-down to prime minister David Cameron last week:
“It’s a good idea to try to remember the essence of the question that was put.”
Posted by Jon The speaker of the UK House of Commons gave a witheringly sarcastic put-down to prime minister David Cameron last week: “It’s a good idea to try to remember the essence of the question that was put.” We could apply this to proposals, of course – not only answer the question (’compliant’) but address its essence (’responsive’). When speaker Bercow gets kicked out of office, he might think of proposal management as a second career… and in the meantime, I can see myself quoting him to various recalcitrant content contributors!
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Ruth Turman
3/25/2016 02:50:26 pm
To which I would add a snippet I myself spouted in a rare display of wisdom back in my university days:
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Ruth Turman
3/25/2016 02:50:37 pm
Obviously I wasn’t “reading” English at university. That last sentence should have read “I, too, anticipate…” NOT “It to anticipate ….”
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Jon
3/25/2016 02:50:50 pm
Ruth – I usually just blame the auto-correct on my BlackBerry for any such errors!
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