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Journalese is the artificial or hyperbolic, and sometimes over-abbreviated, language regarded as characteristic of the popular media. Joe Grimm, formerly of the ''Detroit Free Press'', likened journalese to a "stage voice": "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." ==Examples== *"The governor Thursday announced ..." ''(date used as adverb)'' *"The Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of John F. Kennedy ..." ''(date used as adjective)'' *"Mean streets and densely wooded areas populated by ever-present lone gunmen ..." *"Negotiators yesterday, in an eleventh-hour decision following marathon talks, hammered out agreement on a key wage provision they earlier had rejected." ''(multiple mixed metaphors)'' *''See'' "a bus plunged into a gorge" ''for a common type of gap-filler article.'' *"Calls this morning for tighter restrictions on the sale of alcohol to immigrants." *"Whoosh … whoosh … whoosh … ka-boooom. That’s the way it was at Wanganui's Cooks Gardens, for about 15 minutes on Saturday night." ''(genitive of placename instead of preposition'') *"Rioting and mayhem ..." ''(this example has led to popular misunderstanding causing the word "mayhem" to change its main meaning.)'' *"Attack" ''to mean'' "criticise", ''because it typesets into less space in headlines. This may cause ambiguity if a physical or military attack is possible between the parties named.'' "Slam" is also used this way, as is, increasingly, "blast".'' *"Foes ink pact", "Cops nab crooks after heist", "The new station is slated to open...." (''rare or archaic words chosen over more commonly used words in order to save space'') *"The 1990s saw an increase in crime...." instead of the simpler "Crime increased in the 1990s...." (''the use of "saw" to avoid using the past tense of "increase"'') 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Journalese」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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