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officialese

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And our officialese on secular values is jaded to the point of becoming utterly hollow and impact-less. www.dailymail.co.uk

The document is 180 pages long, most of it standard officialese, but it does contain a couple of doozies. www.macleans.ca

Officialese is meant to impress the listener (or reader) and increase the authority (more than the social status) of the user, making him or her appear more professional. en.wikipedia.org

Occasionally, officialese creeps into the prose style, with expressions such as "survival skills". www.smh.com.au

Shorn of officialese, it is a loan waiver; and loan waivers are granted to individuals or institutions in extreme financial distress -- something not to go to town about. www.thehindu.com

Officialese has been criticized as making one's speech or prose stilted, convoluted, and sometimes even indecipherable and simply as the cancer of language. en.wikipedia.org

Several similar concepts to officialese exist, including "genteelism", "commercialese", "academese" and "journalese". en.wikipedia.org

Officialese or bureaucratese term for language that sounds official. en.wikipedia.org

The history of officialese can be traced to the history of officialdom, as far back as the eldest human civilizations and their surviving official writings. en.wikipedia.org

One is largely pictorial, with a dramatic enough text if mostly in officialese. www.irishnews.com

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