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The Institute for the Linguistically Impaired
by James Evans, founder and director         
 
 
          The verbally ept have long complained about our language's decline.  Our national leaders speak of top priorities and safe havens.  Scientists have major breakthroughs.  The mass media report on environmental pollution.

          Redundancies aren't the only problem at this point in time, but almost fifty years ago, a small group of us decided we could improve the language of single individuals with intensive therapeutic treatment.  In 1957, we opened up the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired in a converted feed store in Underbelly, Texas.

          We found the problem was worse than we had thought.  Fields such as government, education, the social sciences and journalism have turned out to be full of the linguistically impaired, perhaps because these fields are leaders in hiring the disabled.  Our business

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