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How do you report something without asserting anything of substance? This is a problem faced by academic researchers and public relations writers alike as both seek to sound meaningful without actually asserting anything that could be subject to criticism. This article demonstrates graphically how a normal assertive sentence can be reduced to a pile of meaningless verbiage through a series of transformations. Read this through to the end.

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