Craft council shamed for ‘gobbledegook’ language

IT IS hardly surprising a sentence praising the cosmic language of Ireland’s heritage would be declared this year’s biggest pile of gobbledegook.

Yesterday the Craft Council of Ireland (CCOI) held its hands up and accepted an award for a sentence that horrified advocates of simple English use.

In accepting the Plain English Campaign’s Golden Bull prize, CCOI project manager Nicola Whelan said: “It was just one of those sentences. It went through two languages and the translators and when it was sent back to us by the Plain English Campaign we could not even say what it was supposed to mean.”