language-lite

Daily newspaper reading provides many joys but the one I like the best is where a politician coins a shiny neologism, proudly uses it in a flourishing final sentence but is seemingly unaware of its implications........

Thus, in an article about the overestimation of a nuclear threat from Iran; "Iran doesn't come across as a particularly powerful country" a statement unsupported by anything resembling critical insight or evidence, we have the last line, "We need to RIGHTSIZE the Iranian challenge."

What size would that be?

Sloppy language, sloppy thinking.