6 kantselyarizmov that poison your speech

Surely you do not just met - and maybe even themselves used - expressions like "I am an experienced" or "he was not prepared properly." These buzzwords - kantselyarita symptoms, that is the style that permeates from the official documents in books, articles and even speaking.

About the Office of the first spoke Korney Chukovsky in his book "Live life like». He coined the word by analogy with the names of diseases (meningitis, colitis), and believed that the Office of the disease, too, but suffering is a living language, which is displaced by bureaucratic revolutions.

Then he wrote to the Office of the interpreter Nora Gal. She, too, was set up very explicit: in her book "Word of the living and the dead"There is an entire chapter to" Beware kantselyarita! ". Abandon it recommends and editor Maxim Ilyahov, co-author of the book "Write, reduces"And the founder of the service," Glavred ".

Chancery is only suitable for formal business style: laws, statements and other documents. He overloads it and prevent us from understanding each other. Here are some examples of words and phrases, from which should be abandoned.

1. The decision was made

Alternative: we decided.

The decision does not itself accepts - in this process there are direct participants. So why get rid of them, and to displace active turnover passive? When the subject disappears from the proposal, the structure becomes impersonal, dry and bulky. For official documents, this is normal, and in the story, article or advertisement will look not so. If such speed in the text a lot, it will be difficult to read.

2. help

Alternative: to help.

When it comes to the important things, we want to give to the words of solidity. It seems to say "Volunteers help search for missing" a little too easy. Therefore, we take the verb "help" and splitsDictionary of linguistic terms: splitting the predicate it into two words: "assist". And before his eyes instead of volunteers who in the rain looking for a missing child in the forest, there are only meaningless words.

3. make check

Alternative: check.

The Office of the reason does not like verbs and turns them in, say, verbal nouns. As a result of the proposal if the action goes, the phrase becomes fixed and boring. Although it happens that verbal nouns still needed and their use justified. For example, it is better to write "I paid training" rather than "I paid money to learn." So we do not encourage you to completely abandon these words - just try not to get involved.

4. In order to improve quality of service

Alternative: us to help you more effectively.

Surely you have heard this phrase when called in a call center: "In order to improve the quality of service, your call may be recorded". This stylistic mistake, which is calledDictionary of linguistic terms: stringing of cases stringing cases. We draw up a proposal of the nouns in the same nominative - genitive, instrumental, dative or prepositional. The result can be an incredible hodgepodge which is sometimes impossible to understand from the first time, for example: "This was greeted with loud applause by guests." It is not clear who, what and how to meet.

To avoid this situation, try to use different parts of speech and case forms of nouns. Perhaps because it will be easier to understand the sentence: "After his speech, the guests applauded loudly."

5. Properly

Alternative: well, well, right.

These stamps make it incomprehensible and unnatural. For example, "good to do the job" sounds much easier than "to perform their duties properly." And "I am writing to Layfhakera" rather pompous "I am the author."

6. To avoid, in accordance with the

Alternative: ice build without them.

Oh, those denominativeDE Rosenthal, Head of § 199. Choosing a pretext prepositions. Most often, they give speeches breech, bureaucratic tone. Take, for example, here is a suggestion: "In order to prevent traffic accidents, it was decided to install additional traffic lights." You can express the idea much easier, "city administration has decided to put new lights, so there are less accidents."

Or a textbook example of Korney Chukovsky: "The creative treatment of the image of the yard goes on the gain line display tragedy his fate... "You can hardly understand something after the first reading, because there gathered almost all the varieties kantselyarizmov. Therefore it is better not to get involved in them.