The pompous impersonality ofofficialesealso, of course, allows the civil servant to hide behind the monolithic structure of his organisation.
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In such a situation the tendency for it to fossilize into ritualizedofficialeseis increased because the countervailing influences of less formal varieties of the language are not so strong.
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I am afraid, however, that it was a bit ofofficialesein that we are limiting ourselves to a reply which simply confirms past events.
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It may sound likeofficialese, but what it points to is more state control.
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He said that it was in an obscureofficialese, a special language.
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That would be so, but for the preceding paragraphs, because they are the most wonderfulofficialeseattempt to resist any of our reasonable requests.
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It was given in thatofficialesewhich is not meant to give any information at all, but to provide a certain pabulum of words.
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It is expressed in perfect "officialese".
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The responses varied tremendously, and many of them lapsed into a form ofofficialesethat said very little, but took an awfully long time to say.
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Officialeseor bureaucratese term for language that sounds official.
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Officialese, legalese, or bureaucratese are forms of gobbledygook.
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Several similar concepts toofficialeseexist, including "genteelism", "commercialese", "academese" and "journalese".
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Officialesehas been criticized as making one's speech or prose stilted, convoluted, and sometimes even indecipherable and simply as the cancer of language.
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The history ofofficialesecan be traced to the history of officialdom, as far back as the eldest human civilizations and their surviving official writings.
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Officialeseis 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.
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