Catpaw – diary of an angry cat

Why, oh why do people use language like this:
A spokesperson would only confirm that six jobs “were impacted.”
I pulled it from a story I found over at the CBC website.  What happened to plain speak?  I’m sorry, the jobs were not impacted! This useless verbiage is nonsense. Check the definition from Oxford dictionary:
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I’m suffering from a major sinus meltdown at the moment which means I’m housebound and claustrophobic. Hardly any voice, crappy feeling and just not a happy creature. Which means, I have an excess amount of time on my hands to watch incredibly trashy tv (now I remember why I prefer to work during the day) [...]

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I’ve been busy for the past few days. I have a lovely new 64 bit dual core lots of ram no more gerbil power for me laptop! I’ve spent an embarassing amount of time playing around with it. Oh dear, I am in love! Fast and powerful.  Too bad it couldn’t organise me and make [...]

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[We] apologize for all the delays. There’s really no way to deal with hundreds of thousands of people converging on one transportation corridor
TTC Chair Adam Giambrone November 19/09
hmmm… the TTC has never dealt with any halts on the system before yesterday? They never had to deal with massive crowds? Service has been perfect up until [...]

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