Madam, - Louis Hogan (January 4th) complains about the sloppy use of language in the media, and I agree.
Another side of the same coin is the proliferation of gobbledegook instead of plain English, especially among business people.
A prime example appears in your "Motors" supplement of January 5th. A member of the National Safety Council talks about the "heavyweight campaign of intense messaging" which is about to start and will apparently "reassure" motorists about the new speed limits, adding, without apparent irony: "If we had gone too early it would have caused more confusion".
I think he means a public information campaign. May I suggest that if we all spoke plain English it might cause less confusion? - Yours, etc.,
PAT GRIFFIN,
Ardeevin Court,
Lucan,
Co Dublin.