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Officialese is the stiff, heavy way some government people write and talk — long sentences, nouns, and words that hide a simple idea. Forms, office letters, and rules are often full of it. People use the word as a complaint: you could have said this in a few clear words, but you wrapped it in official language instead. The ending -ese here is a little ; it means “the language of that group,” the way legalese is the tangled language of lawyers. You will meet officialese in newspapers and in jokes about paperwork more than in street talk. Though actually, not every official this way. The word names the bad habit, not every sentence that comes from an office.
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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
officialesenoun/ə.fɪ.ʃəˈliːz/
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The typical language of officials or official documents; legalistic and pompous language.
- These were men, the chronicler continued, who ‘spoke pleasantly’, in the smooth officialese that most of Henry's counsellors were accustomed to deploy […]
- But while using officialese might give your writing the outward appearance of being thorough and correct, that doesn't mean there's anything happening underneath. Officialese is a kind of defense mechanism. It's rooted in the fear of getting something wrong, or leaving something out, or looking stupid.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。