Talk:Journalese

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I'm reworking this:

Journalese is, according to a typical dictionary definition, a derogatory term for a superficial, cliché-ridden and sensationalist style of writing regarded as typical of newspapers.

In a self-reflective, self-critical mood, the journalist Joe Grimm argued that journalese is "neither clichés nor jargon: Journalese is the peculiar language that newspapers have evolved for talking to readers. We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic. But it doesn't do any of that."

The typical characteristics of journalese are:

the search for, and use of, synonyms -- not just to avoid repetition -- even if they are hardly ever used in ordinary speech unusual lexical choice including euphemisms, hyphenated words, and neologisms the use of ellipsis, particularly in headlines one-sentence paragraphs (which, by general consent, are to be avoided in essay-type texts) A special form of journalese is headlinese ("Mad Cow Talks in Washington", "Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge", "Mounting Problems for Young Couples", "Hospital Sued by Seven Foot Doctors" etc.).

Maurreen 09:49, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Okay, but why did you remove so much of the information? <KF> 15:10, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

Say what you want about this article, but it's probably one of the funnier article in the Wikipedia. Happy Thanksgiving, assholes! PeteJayhawk 00:42, 24 November 2006 (UTC)