Thursday, December 20, 2018

Comically stilted language from a content mill


























Today my Google Alert on “public speaking” pointed me to a web article from December 19th at the OPE D Project titled 4 Causes Most Folks Hate Public Speaking. The first three paragraphs say:

“It is typically mentioned that public speaking is the world’s primary worry – and that most individuals worry it greater than dying. The truth is that there isn’t any analysis to again up that declare – it appeared a few years in the past in a newspaper record and has been broadly quoted ever since. But it surely’s true that most individuals would somewhat do most different issues than rising up in the entrance of a bunch of individuals. And real analysis typically reveals it amongst individual’s high worries.”

This laughable nonsense likely was generated by a content mill, who took an article from elsewhere and then mechanically ran its words or phrases through a thesaurus.

The image of a clown on stilts came from Gabriel VanHelsing at Wikimedia Commons.

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