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The russian language has a special term set aside for this kind of round-about linguistic constructionism – "fish language". It's like the English "legalese",
by godDLL 17y ago
The russian language has a special term set aside for this kind of round-about linguistic constructionism – "fish language". It's like the English "legalese", but with no relation to lawyers specifically.
The idea is that a fishes mouth opens and closes all the time, but all that comes out is air-bubbles.
I'm with master George Carlin on this one, "simple, direct language" is appropriate everywhere there isn't a justified need for domain-specific terminology to be used.
- vlisivka 17y ago> The russian language has a special term set aside for this kind of round-about linguistic constructionism – "fish language". It's like the English "legalese", but with no relation to lawyers specifically. You talking about "Канцелярит" (kantceliaryt?). "Канцелярия" means "office". Suffix "ит" here means language or disease. So "канцелярит" means "official language/disease". See http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82 http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5%... http://zhivoeslovo.ru/content/view/85/143/ http://zhivoeslovo.ru/content/view/85/143/ "Fish" (рыба) - is template or form: you need just to fill gaps between prewritten sentences. It looks like "fish bones".
- godDLL 17y agoНет, я про "рыбий язык". "Канцелярит" мне что-то из иврита уже навевает, наверное, все же. (No.)