Wooden language is language that uses vague, ambiguous, abstract or pompous words in order to divert attention from salient issues. The phrase is a literal translation of the French expression langue de bois which appears to have been coined by Georges Clemenceau in 1919, and became widely used during the 1970s and 1980s after being brought back into French from Russian via Polish.
Wooden language is language that uses vague, ambiguous, abstract or pompous words in order to divert attention from salient issues. The phrase is a literal translation of the French expression langue de bois which appears to have been coined by Georges Clemenceau in 1919, and became widely used during the 1970s and 1980s after being brought back into French from Russian via Polish.
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