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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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- 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....
- 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...
- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Linguistics portal If-by-whiskey Officialese Weasel word Caparini, Marina; Fluri, Philipp (2006). Civil Society and...
- propaganda Doublespeak Headlinese Journalese Legalese Military terminology Officialese Weasel word Bryan A. Garner (28 July 2009). "Commercialese". Garner's...
- Another explanation is that the ⟨c⟩ comes from a mannerism in High German officialese of writing unnecessary letters, a so-called Letternhäufelung (lit. 'letter...
- particular is evident in his letters, which include wry parodies of Soviet officialese. Zoshchenko noted the contradictions in the composer's character: "he...
- family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence." By the 1880s the term "officialese" was in use, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as, "The formal...
- worldview and crippling lack of communication skills through reliance on "officialese" (Amtssprache) and the euphemistic Sprachregelung (convention of speech)...