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Mock-Newspaper/Publishing Jargon
mock-publishing jargon
The comic device of narrating courtship and marriage using the vocabulary of proofreading, printing, retail distribution, and censorship, as though a wife were a manuscript or periodical.
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- Two Novels §9 THE REPORTER'S NOVEL
The story's second half shifts its comic register from medical Latin to newspaper and publishing jargon -- 'misprint,' 'proofread,' 'retail sale,' 'the censor' -- casting the reporter's marriage as if his wife were a manuscript or periodical.
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