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		<title>Clickbait grammar</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[click bate]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michael Reid Roberts has a piece in The American Reader about the grammer employed by Upworthy and other websites to attract clicks: The key element in these titles is the relationship between the first sentence and the second. The first is relatively traditional, while the second sentence is short, annoyingly informal, and conspiratorial. We might [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael Reid Roberts has a piece in The American Reader about the <a href="http://theamericanreader.com/life-sentences-the-grammar-of-clickbait/">grammer employed by Upworthy and other websites to attract clicks</a>:</p>
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<p>The key element in these titles is the relationship between the first sentence and the second. The first is relatively traditional, while the second sentence is short, annoyingly informal, and conspiratorial. We might call these couplets <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/190468/epode">epodal</a> because of the relative line lengths, but I think the effect is more similar to <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/99071/catalexis-and-acatalexis">catalexis</a> in that the second line&#8217;s brevity emphasizes something unfinished or incomplete. The second sentence is intentionally vague: click here to finish the thought, answer the question, solve the riddle! And, like most unfinished stories, the conclusion is rarely satisfying. But as someone who rarely clicks on Upworthy links, I have come to appreciate the beauty of these teases. Read the above titles again, but without registering the hyperlink: now they read like Buddhist koans. You want to know how you might be a war mercenary, but can you know, really? Bask in the not-knowing.</p>
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		<title>Politics and the English Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Politics and the English Language George Orwell: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. (iv) Never use [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm'>Politics and the English Language</a></p>
<div class="link_description">George Orwell:</p>
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  (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.</p>
<p>  (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.</p>
<p>  (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.</p>
<p>  (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.</p>
<p>  (v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.</p>
<p>  (vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
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