Talk:Wooden language

Wooden language for wooden people

Would wooden language be what various wooden people speak? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 02:31, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The latter half of the article is biased and weasely:

Wooden Language was commonly used in political speeches and newspaper articles in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the other Eastern European Communist countries,[1] and is still prevalent today in most political spectrums[weasel words].

Maybe it was used in the USSR and other Eastern European Communist countries, but...

saying so implies that western european countries or america or any other country never have been using wooden language. Or that it isn't commonly used anymore (which I would have noticed).
the source quoted does NOT support the claim! The only paragraph talking about wooden language refers to the media in Romania before 1990, in contrast to its development afterwards. Maybe there should be better sources about the propaganda language during communist era? The book is about current development in the so called new democracies, not about their past.
when exactly?
what means "commonly"?
prevalent in most which political spectrums? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.247.114.54 (talk) 15:31, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The USSR reference

>Wooden language was commonly used in political speeches and newspaper articles in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the other Eastern European Communist countries.

I guess it's kinda wrong to say that. Wooden language is the main characteristic of Russian journalism (abstract terms, a lot of clichés, rhetorical pathos and stuff). And yes, speeches, newspaper articles are "journalism" in Russian (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.49.58.149 (talk) 15:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken. However I have restored the bit about the origin, sourced from French wiki [1] (since I can't find дубовый язык in Russian wiki), and which seems uncontroversial. Mcewan (talk) 11:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Polish equivalent is drętwa mowa, while in Greek ξύλινη γλώσσα would fit. Zezen (talk) 13:46, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]