Newspaper English
“Learning a language is not merely an academic exercise. Students of English want to be able to use the language they have acquired in the same way as English people use it. They not only want to understand spoken English and to make themselves understood; they also want to be able to appreciate English television and radio programs, to laugh at English jokes, to sing English songs and to read English newspapers. This last wish often gives rise to some disappointment, when for example, the student who has passed his exams with top marks and has earned mendation of his teacher finds that he is quite unable t understand the newspapers which he knows English people read every day. He realizes that he lacks something.
“The deficiency is not entirely his fault. The difficulty lies in the fact that British newspapers have a style all of their own; or–rather-each paper has its own individual style forming part of a general journalistic pattern which we may loosely classify as ‘Newspaper English.’ The more popular dailies use a chatty, slangy, up-to-the-moment way of writing, which, as often as not, leaves the foreign reader very bewildered, if not under a totally false impression. Here is a typical piece of such reporting:
Curvaceous Patricia Potts, the girl with the smashing silhouette who was Scunthorpe’s Dish of the Month in October—the dishest dish in the area
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