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248 months ago

Claude Le Frapper (a guest user) asked this question:

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248 months ago

   wrote:

wooden language

My comment:

"No, the problem is that the "wooden language" (that's how we call it) is ethically unacceptable, it is a jargon made of slogans and clichés that keeps experience away, it never establishes any contact with sorrow or pain, love and delight, feelings, emotions. It only accomplishes boredom. "

My references:

http://www.wumingfoundation.com/english/giap/Giapdigest24.html

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248 months ago

   wrote:

"To stimulate interest in such a chat form you have to publicise it, as widely as possible and make it interesting during the conversation (avoid fudging and wooden language). How about publicising it in the national press? You can ask journalists to join in.." http://europa.eu.int/chatoreja/trans_en.htm "Wooden language abounds, and the chapter on dictionaries reads remarkably like a laundry list of such works through the ages, though such a list will surely be valuable to specialists. " http://language.home.sprynet.com/trandex/histrhis.htm The Wooden Language, as it Appears du Scintlia, the RCP Propaganda Daily http://www.ceu.hu/hist/ma_20032004.htm he loved to parody the wooden language of his country’s radio and television newscasters. http://www.unesco.org/bpi/intangible_heritage/goytisoloe.htm

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248 months ago

Isabel Ruivo   wrote:

mute / speechless / not communicating

My comment:

Non willingness to communicate.

or simply:

Lack of communication

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248 months ago

   wrote:

Fig. : notamment language de la propagande politique, sans prise reel.