The English language is a model of power and clarity. Why then is it used so often to obscure?
Our inexplicable inability to eschew obfuscation
Bob Martin is a former Inquirer writer and editor
Arguments are magnets. On hearing them we are inevitably drawn in. What caught my ear recently was a heated debate at the supermarket over the meaning of "Buy two, get one free."
The customer argued that if you bought two items, one was free. The store attendant countered that you had to buy two before you got another for free.