Jose Carillo's English Forum
Joe Carillo's Desk => My Media English Watch => Topic started by: enggier on January 25, 2012, 03:54:01 AM
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One of the worst enemies of good journalism—and of all good writing for that matter—is gobbledygook, which is defined as wordy and generally unintelligible jargon. It’s the kind of long, pompous, vague, and convoluted English that usually finds haven in academic and technical journals, accepted and often understood without question by readers who are mostly of the same language mindset as that of its purveyors. No harm is done, of course, when gobbledygook stays within that rarefied language environment. But every now and then, through the efforts of language-deaf publicity agents and the acquiescence of some mass media editors, it gets into the pages of mass-circulation newspapers and magazines to confound and confuse lay readers.
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Hey, enggier, you must be either a bot or an unscrupulous copycat. Your post above is a verbatim copy of the first paragraph of my Forum posting on gobbledygook last September 4, 2011 entitled "When media falls for or becomes acquiescent to PR gobbledygook." (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1733.0) While I appreciate this opportunity to bring up that posting again for the appreciation of Forum members, I don't relish the idea of this form of intellectual piracy being foisted on the Forum's discussion boards. I ask you to desist from doing this; otherwise, you'll give the Forum moderators no choice but to ban you from posting material in the Forum ever again.
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This is a great post and i find this post very interesting.
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Well said i am agree with your views. some times it happens to all.
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Communication is the main purpose of the language. If that purpose is not served, then it is missing the goal. This is true that some of the times people become confused by the use of convoluted jargon. But if people can't understand that, then it should not be used.
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Hey, enggier, you must be either a bot or an unscrupulous copycat. Your post above is a verbatim copy of the first paragraph of my Forum posting on gobbledygook last September 4, 2011 entitled "When media falls for or becomes acquiescent to PR gobbledygook." (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1733.0) While I appreciate this opportunity to bring up that posting again for the appreciation of Forum members, I don't relish the idea of this form of intellectual piracy being foisted on the Forum's discussion boards. I ask you to desist from doing this; otherwise, you'll give the Forum moderators no choice but to ban you from posting material in the Forum ever again.
I think this is a bot :)
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