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After reference on another thread to the Sun newspaper I have been trying to read the on-line version and I'm sorry to say I dont understand most of the slang or even know who or what most of the people are in the articles. And most of what is there is not really a newsworthy story anyway. In fact, even the layout makes the thing confusing as it jumps all over the place. Is there a dictionary of slang that I might use for this kind of thing? What seems to be a positive is that it uses the same words or phrases again and again so Sun-speak must be easy to learn.  Is this Newspeak à la 1984?

Is this the same newspaper that is supposed to have won the election for Blair?

Anybody else feel the same?

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I have to admit trying to keep up with the (so-called) celebrities in there at one time, since a pub-quiz we went to at the time, insisted on asking questions about what "celebrity" was doing what.

I gave up after two weeks in utter and complete boredom....

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