From: Edward Hobbs (EHOBBS@wellesley.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 09 1998 - 17:40:32 EST
In my previous post, I hope my term "officialese" wasn't too free a
translation of Mayser's "Kanzleisprache". I wasn't trying to be
cute; I thought "the lingo of the chancellery" sounded a bit anachronistic
and "bureaucratic-speak" a bit journalistic. So I chose "officialese."
I suppose our modern equivalents would include "at this point in time,"
"in reference to the aforesaid X," etc.
Edward Hobbs
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