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Doublespeak

blog: January 10th, 2012

Definition from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/doublespeak.html”
“Intentionally deceiving language. Not an outright lie or a tactful euphemism, but systematic use of ambiguous, evasive words and sentence structures to say one thing but mean something else. Commonly associated with bureaucracy, military, and politics, it is often practiced in commerce also as a calculated attempt to (1) avoid or shift responsibility, […]