Transcript Bbc New Speak

Today in news-speak we look at the common language that BBC-reporters use when TAKLIN science reporting. We’ll also examine the collocations, associated words that you could expect to hear together, that reporters use. But first here is senior science producer for the BBC world service, Dr. Toby Murcott. We are still a few agree with KJD that science reporters sometimes behind humour if they don’t understand something.

I think she is spot on. People laugh when they’re nervous about something. Science is a difficult subject to report on but it’s not difficult if you know it and understand it. And as science enters journalism more and more there are science-specialists like myself who are naturally competent and comfortable with it and non-scientists who are becoming more and more comfortable, and so, that AJING sense of humour, I think, is going slowly.

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Today we are going to look at one of Toby Murcott’s reports about how the use of pig body-parts and human transplants could be a step closer.

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But before we look at the language of that report can you think of an important science-story that’s been in news of your country?

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Think about one or two words that are used in your country in your language to report those stories.

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Can you translaTINGABUM into English?

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Now let’s hear the first part of Toby Murcott’s report. There is one important worry or major concern about using pig organs in humans. What is it?

“Pigs are roughly the same size as humans and have a similar physiology. And with a global shortage of human organs for transplantation there are a number of projects investigating the use of pig organs for transplanting to humans, known as ‘xenotransplantation’.

“However, one maid a concern as being whether pig BORROSES might cause decease in humans in a similar way to which HIV is known to have crossed from chimpanzees to people. Now a multinational team of researchers report on research for signs of pig borrows in humans, a...