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Mind your language

The sinister new meaning of ‘support’

Beware of social workers seeking to ‘support you into’ something

31 May 2014

9:00 AM

31 May 2014

9:00 AM

When I asked my husband why paramedical professions were given to remaking the language in strange ways, he replied in a threatening tone ‘Whadya mean?’ I think he was in denial. But it is undeniably true that where two or three trained counsellors or disability campaigners are gathered together, the first victim will be the English language.

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