Can you speak tabloid?

Tabloids use the English language in a way no one would ever dream of using in real life, either in writing or speaking

Tabloids use the English language in a way no one would ever dream of using in real life, either in writing or speaking. It is crude and often violent shorthand, with simply short words that fit into large-type headlines.

The language doesn't allow for nuance. When checked by the measurements used on school children to check their reading progress, the language in the Sun is simple enough for a six-year-old.

In tabloid newspapers, words like 'disagreement' and 'debate' do not fit. They are substituted with row or feud, which is a bit different.

Alternatively we can have a bust up, or verbs like lash, rap and blast.

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An annoyance (meaning we are not pleased) now becomes fury (suggesting anger beyond control). An arrangement (meaning an informal agreement) becomes a deal (meaning something far more formal, with overtones of a possibly shady financial side). Bad luck becomes a curse, to criticise is to slam. Failure to attend is a snub.

An internal dispute is a civil war, possibility is a threat, a proposal is a plan, replace is oust and bad traffic is road chaos.