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solecisms and inconsistencies in journalistic writing. Global Health

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By Raul Bautista.

WEST SANTO DOMINGO .- It is likely that the media is taken over by individuals who do not have clear ideas about the correct use of language.

This is reflected in the constant errors, most easy questions, which are read in the newspapers print and on the "regular" network.

For those who think anyone with a "blog" is a journalist, and for professionals who never applied linguistic foundations we bring you this:

Gonzalo Martín Vivaldi, in his "writing course," says that paragraphs lose coherence and clarity to the changes of subject and verb.

He adds: "In writing, it should give some consistency to sentences are a paragraph or period. This consistency is altered, and the expression loses clarity when little changes right in the subject, or in person, verb tense voice. "

That fits a lot with the comments made in a previous article, where we encourage academics and editors of "style" that the first step to teach correct and correct it is to define voice.

And all the good authors of journalism, and linguistics, match to say and write the English language gives preference to the active voice. Vivaldi

gives us this example:

When we win the lottery, gets a very happy.

In this case there is consistency between the voice and the people of the verbs in these sentences. In the first sentence, NOS TOCA, is in active voice and first person plural (subject, us). In the second sets, is in the passive sense reflects indefinite third person singular (subject, one).

right thing, shows the author, would write:

When we win the lottery, we get very excited, or rather, one becomes very happy, when I win the lottery.

The solecisms:

The same author tells us that the solecisms are syntax errors, especially matching and speed. Are solecisms whose employment and its variants for which, where, who and which (I saw two boxes, whose paintings are Goya, rather than saw two paintings, which are de Goya), the misuse of prepositions (mounted on a jet plane by jet aircraft. I looked at the woman, looked at the woman. Won two baskets, and won by two baskets, the misuse of pronouns (he came to himself, to return in you), and so on.

invade us, "says Vivaldi-syntactic-barbarism or solecism, "increasingly widespread in the" media "or" mass media ". We refer-author advances the employment-at-the potential misuse or conditional (or would have spoken) with the sense of time assumption. Examples:

"The strike would have involved more than one hundred thousand workers, rather than, say or it is estimated that the strike, have participated.

"One of the detainees was a member of the WXA, instead of: it is believed or assumed to be one of those arrested was a member of the WXA, instead of: it is believed or assumed that a detainee is a member ( integral) the WXA.

bad examples, examples, transcripts are actually incomplete conditional sentences, correct syntax is as follows: In the strike would have involved more than one hundred thousand workers if the unions had agreed. One of those arrested was a member of WXA, but was now a member of the ZRA.

The alleged solecism, the conditional-sense assumption comes from France. It is pertinent to professional journalists, teachers and students of communication we study in depth these concepts to see if they minimize these errors.