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Dumb Down

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Dumb Down
A popular term meaning to simplify language for a less sophisticated—i.e., ‘dumb’—audience
dumb down
verb A popular term for simplifying language to a less sophisticated–ergo, 'dumb'–audience
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But the biggest loser is Channel 4, which continues to dumb down.
Q: Chris Moyles - why?! by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
JEREMY Clarkson has many followers but the BBC, as a publicly funded organisation, should not dumb down just to be populist and appeal to the celebrity culture.
Letter: The BIG issue - Clarkson drives us mad by The Mirror (London, England)
It's bullshit to say we're going to dumb down The Wall Street Journal.
Murdoch in Esquire: For Five Years, Sulzberger Didn't Want to Hire ... by John Koblin / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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