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- etymology - Origin of term doublespeak - English Language Usage . . .
•"Doublespeak is not a term invented by George Orwell, but we surely nod to him for its origin, since he did invent 'doublethink' and 'newspeak' for his political novel 1984" (Paul Wasserman and Don Hausrath, Weasel Words: The Dictionary of American Doublespeak Capital Books, 2006) So what exactly is the origin of the term "doublespeak"?
- phrase requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
doublespeak — flipping the meaning or use of a phrase in an attempt to disguise the truth (e g a boy named Girl) euphemism — softening a phrase to reduce its emotional or social impact fridge logic or fridge brilliance — typically applied to events in a film or show, the idea that something "hits" you some time after the initial reveal
- Why Are Baseball Metaphors Popular for Corporate Jargon?
1 The paper "Foul Play: Sports Metaphors as Public Doublespeak" advances one theory about why these metaphors are so common in the US I can best explain the matter by quoting that paper at length: [Sports] fit philosophically with the widely accepted American dream of open competition in a free market economy
- The deliberate use of misleading terminology
These two have been combined to form the term doublespeak (frequently incorrectly attributed to Orwell's 1984) meaning "language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words " More information and references at Wikipedia The OP mentioned Nineteen Eighty-Four but not doublespeak
- How did sanction come to have two opposite meanings?
Sanction is an unusual ambiguous word to me In some cases it means to approve some action, while in other cases it means to prohibit or punish some action; and there being near opposite meanings,
- Phrase or idiom for only having seen one part of something but not the . . .
Although I enjoyed learning the theory, I knew I hadn't seen the whole picture, because I lacked experimental courses the whole picture (idiom) The overall sense or presentation of a situation, concept, topic, etc , including all related factors and potential consequences You're focusing on one small part of the negotiation, but you need to see the whole picture—we may need to compromise
- business language - Politer word to refer to a cleaner - English . . .
@TecBrat: The euphemism treadmill That is something we should try to avoid, because it doesn't work and results in ugliness Orwell, amongst others, was famously against doublespeak, using language to try to effect political goals
- Extract v. Extricate - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In political and tradecraft doublespeak, "extract" also has the connotation of placing someone in confinement, instead of removing them from it, making it nearly antonymic to "extricate"
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