This chapter focuses on design issues related to errorful, state-opaque speech applications.
Ever stately and subtle, she rarely gives speeches, and when she does she speaks in diplomatic and opaque language that resists outrage and thrives on muddying the water.
In fact, although the official manifesto was opaque, her speeches in the years between defeating Edward Heath for the leadership of the Conservative party in 1975 and coming to power laid out the ideology that underpinned her policies over the next 11 years.
The characters are opaque but their speech is limpid.
This, the report notes, are opaque modes of speech, accent, dress and behaviour which are "actively sought by hiring managers during the selection process" and which, a senior member of the profession revealed, are best learned alongside one's parents while at school, at dinner and drinks parties.
In a speech otherwise opaque about his aims, he made specific mention of "ever closer union".
But there was soon a falling out: Williams's speeches were too opaque and, though genial, he made little attempt to understand the media.
The Memorandum (1965), with its bursts of ptydepe, a pseudo-speech mocking the opaque cant of contemporary officialese, also quotes the notorious instruction of the party boss Antonín Novotný about "not falling on our knees before facts".
Unlike Greenspan, whose public statements were notorious for being deliberately opaque and convoluted, Bernanke's speeches have been marked by their clarity.
