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- Title
Writer's Notebook: "Experts" Misuse of Language: Part Two.
- Authors
Erb, Lyle L.
- Abstract
The article focuses on misuse of language by experts. Typical remarks made by newspaper and magazine editors across the country to David Shaw, the Los Angeles Times media specialist, when he surveyed the use and abuse of language in the nation's publications has been given. But most editors interviewed by Shaw held that their reporters, even the younger reporters who most often make language mistakes are generally very careful with facts and with the conclusions they draw from them. One explanation, many editors agreed, is the influence of television. Political speeches and athletes' post-game comments are so filled with the torture of the English language that misuse almost seems the standard of the day, Shaw observes. People speaking spontaneously on television are more likely to make mistakes in language usage than are people who write their comments and then edit them. Spoken English is also more casual, and less precise, than written English, he points out and people accustomed to watching and listening to television, rather than reading books, hear more colloquial and improper English.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ERRORS of usage in the English language; LANGUAGE &; languages; PERIODICAL editors; PUBLISHING; PRESS; TELEVISION; ENGLISH language conversation &; phrase books; REPORTERS &; reporting
- Publication
Public Relations Quarterly, 1982, Vol 27, Issue 2, p32
- ISSN
0033-3700
- Publication type
Article