Jackson6612 wrote:Please make corrections/edits to the following text:Why do the newspapers use difficult vocabulary and structure?Almost all the English newspapers I have read, or saying it more correctly, have tried to read, use very difficult vocabulary and structure. I know a newspaper has to be formal. By starting with "But" you are making this less formal. Is that okay? But it can be formal without using any such difficult vocabulary and structure. It is addressed to the general public, not to some linguists This isn't quite the right word. Linguists study the nature of language. Perhaps "literary scholar.". I believe even some English natives also have to use a dictionary while reading a newspaper. This problem seems to exist with all the newspapers, not specifically with English-language ones. Whenever I came across with any local newspaper, it was full of weird words which I prefer "that" to "which" I had never encountered before. Perhaps, those authors are trying to boast of show off their knowledge by using hideous "hideous" is probably not the right word vocabulary and kinky most certainly the wrong word - what do you want this to say? writing style.
By the way, I have had to use a dictionary while reading a film review (let alone the more in-depth pieces) in the Wall Street Journal, but USA Today has never caused me a moment of trouble.