Template:Did you know nominations/Officialese

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The result was: promoted by Mentoz86 (talk) 11:08, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Officialese

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• ... that officialese has been called the "cancer of language" and opposed by the Plain Language Movement?

• Reviewed: Abdallah al-Battal

Created/expanded by Piotrus (talk). Self nom at 21:25, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Isn't the hook factoid a bit self-evident? I would expect the Plain Language Movement to oppose any sort of jargon, so this hook does not feel at all hooky to me. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:59, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

I don't think it is self-evident. How many people even know there is such a thing as PLM? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 16:24, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Interesting to me; de gustibus and all that, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 22:16, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

• Let's get a fresh pair of eyes here, and a full review of the article to boot. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:56, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

• And I wasn't notified on talk by any of the previous commenters... please ping me if there is something else that merits a reply. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 16:24, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Please see my ALT1 below. Everything else checks out. Character count: 1,821. All dates are fine. My hook below is based on the inline citation #8 in the article, leading to History of Language by Steven Roger Fischer.[1] — The actual book reference sounds even more dramatic than that.

• ALT1: ... that officialese can be traced to the exercise of authority going back as far as the oldest human civilizations? Poeticbent talk 21:47, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

• I like it, but I cannot tick it as the article's author :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:18, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Length etc fine, and ALT1 works. "Never let me hear that detestable phrase again..." I like it. GTG Good to go. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:27, 26 September 2012 (UTC)