Post by account_disabled on Nov 24, 2023 23:26:58 GMT -5
Politically correct language is not the only enemy of clear writing and thinking, although it is probably the most obvious. Jeremiah Horrigan, What's worse than politically correct writing? I have always liked free language, without any constraints, without censorship of any kind, without limits, without formalities, without impositions. A frank and direct language , which does not mean lack of attention to education and respect, but only honesty and transparency of opinions. Today, if we listen to all the talk about language, we should use a limited dictionary, making communication less immediate and adding unnecessary words.
There is also talk of linguistic sexism in the Italian language , which I have already written about and which I consider simply absurd. Sexism exists if we want it to exist, otherwise it's just a fantasy, in my opinion. Make your writing clear and understandable The first problem that emerges when trying to be politically correct in writing is a decrease in Phone Number Data comprehensibility and clarity. The intent is to please everyone, but we know too well that when we write something, it is impossible to succeed in this endeavor. The fanatics of the crusade against linguistic sexism, for example, have created an even ungrammatical language, with the result of having produced illegible and even ridiculous texts. In some institutional texts, euphemisms are used to avoid offending the susceptibility of some subjects, thus creating less clear and unnecessarily long texts.
Are euphemisms really useful? Is calling things by their proper names really that offensive? Rhetorical figure which consists in replacing, for religious or moral scruples or for social considerations or otherwise, the proper and usual expression with another of attenuated meaning. Euphemism in the Treccani dictionary. Scruples, concerns, attenuations: or, translated in a few words, limits and obstacles to understanding. The depersonalization of writing Politically correct language leads to depersonalizing one's writing , because the writer renounces his freedom of expression, remaining a prisoner of pre-imposed patterns and pre-packaged words and phrases.
There is also talk of linguistic sexism in the Italian language , which I have already written about and which I consider simply absurd. Sexism exists if we want it to exist, otherwise it's just a fantasy, in my opinion. Make your writing clear and understandable The first problem that emerges when trying to be politically correct in writing is a decrease in Phone Number Data comprehensibility and clarity. The intent is to please everyone, but we know too well that when we write something, it is impossible to succeed in this endeavor. The fanatics of the crusade against linguistic sexism, for example, have created an even ungrammatical language, with the result of having produced illegible and even ridiculous texts. In some institutional texts, euphemisms are used to avoid offending the susceptibility of some subjects, thus creating less clear and unnecessarily long texts.
Are euphemisms really useful? Is calling things by their proper names really that offensive? Rhetorical figure which consists in replacing, for religious or moral scruples or for social considerations or otherwise, the proper and usual expression with another of attenuated meaning. Euphemism in the Treccani dictionary. Scruples, concerns, attenuations: or, translated in a few words, limits and obstacles to understanding. The depersonalization of writing Politically correct language leads to depersonalizing one's writing , because the writer renounces his freedom of expression, remaining a prisoner of pre-imposed patterns and pre-packaged words and phrases.