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Officialese, bureaucratese, or
governmentese is
language that
sounds official. It is the "language of officialdom".
Officialese is
characterized by a...
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capacitor Fedspeak Neologism Officialese Psychobabble Reverse the
polarity Rubber science Sokal affair Turbo encabulator...
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sound of
English to
those who are not
fluent in the language. The
terms officialese or
bureaucratese refer to
language used by
officials or authorities....
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attested in
English in 1533 via the Old
French oficial. The
informal term
officialese, the
jargon of "officialdom", was
first recorded in 1884. An officialis...
- family-vault full of
ungrammatical correspondence." By the 1880s the term "
officialese" was in use,
defined by the
Oxford English Dictionary as, "The formal...
- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Linguistics portal If-by-whiskey
Officialese Weasel word Caparini, Marina; Fluri,
Philipp (2006).
Civil Society and...
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propaganda Doublespeak Headlinese Journalese Legalese Military terminology Officialese Weasel word
Bryan A.
Garner (28 July 2009). "Commercialese". Garner's...
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Another explanation is that the ⟨c⟩
comes from a
mannerism in High
German officialese of
writing unnecessary letters, a so-called Letternhäufelung (lit. 'letter...
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particular is
evident in his letters,
which include wry
parodies of
Soviet officialese.
Zoshchenko noted the
contradictions in the composer's character: "he...
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worldview and
crippling lack of
communication skills through reliance on "
officialese" (Amtssprache) and the
euphemistic Sprachregelung (convention of speech)...
