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#92: The English of Boris Johnson

English Learning for Curious Minds

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Boris Johnson and the Language He Uses

With boris johnson, there is almost always a reason for everything. He has cultivated this image as a scruffy, lazy, normal person with the same problems as everyone else. So coming back to the language he uses, we have to think that there is a reason for using this kind of complicated, archaic language. On one level, it's strange, as johnson knows the power of communicating clearly. And i fail totally in this. I catch myself endlessly on the radiowoffling and blurbling"

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