Talk:Glittering generality
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Could someone please either merge this article with code word (figure of speech) or draw a clear distinctions of the terms. To me they look very similar. Mikkalai 16:50, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Also, relation to "Loaded language" term would be useful. Are there any other terms from the spectrum of "deceitful" speech? Power word maybe? Mikkalai 16:54, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Why is this in the categories 'British culture' and 'Politics of the United Kingdom', since it is specific to neither and doesn't even mention them directly? you need to be more detailed!
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[edit] "Examples"
Why does the "examples" link point to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples ??? 88.193.186.185 (talk) 22:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] New examples needed
The two examples presented -- Kerry and Bush -- are really not very good exemplars at all. Can someone please post some new ones that better represent the concept? Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) 03:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I disagree.
The speach of almost any politician can be used to illustrate gilltering generalities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.98.183.170 (talk) 15:34, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] An earlier reference to "glittering generalities" in "On the Trail, An Outdoor Book for Girls"
This book, published in 1915, is in the Guttenberg Project Library
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18525/18525-h/18525-h.htm
Top of Page 7:
"However, this is not to be a book of glittering generalities but, as far as it can be made, one of practical helpfulness in outdoor life; therefore when you are told to strike the trail you must also be told how to do it."
[edit] A still earlier reference
In Dyer D. Lum, _The Economics of Anarchy_, p. 20, published in 1890.
"That labor should be free is 'a glittering generality' everywhere acknowledged."
63.3.7.129 (talk) 03:20, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
