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Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs and "servicing the target" for bombing ), [ 1 ] in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable.
In a 2000 study of Coward's works, Peter Raby groups Fallen Angels with some of the playwright's other early works as showing how Coward was more open than his predecessors Wilde and Saki about the prominence of sex in theatrical romances: "[W]hether the treatment is serious – as in The Vortex and Easy Virtue – or comic – as in Hay Fever ...
William D. Lutz (/ l ʌ t s /; born December 12, 1940) is an American linguist who specializes in the use of plain language and the avoidance of doublespeak (deceptive language).
Peter Rabe (born Peter Rabinowitsch, November 3, 1921 – May 20, 1990) [1] was a German American writer who also wrote under the names Marco Malaponte and J. T ...
The Doublespeak Award was a humorous award in the United States of America. It was described as an "ironic tribute to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered", i.e. those who have engaged in doublespeak .
Peter Hamby (born August 21, 1981) is an American political journalist. [2] He is the host of Good Luck America at Snapchat and a contributing writer for Puck News and Vanity Fair. [3] [4] He began his journalism career at CNN. Hamby has been described as an early adopter among political journalists of social media. [5]
A 6-year-old North Carolina boy, Harvey, had a moment he'll never forget. In a viral clip featured on TODAY's Morning Boost, Harvey's foster parents, Megan and Brian, sat him down to share some ...
Orwell's doublethink is also credited with having inspired the commonly used term doublespeak, which itself does not appear in the book.Comparisons have been made between doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essay "Politics and the English Language", in which "unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other 'doublespeakers' of whatever stripe ...