| Doublespeak Defined: Cut Through the Bull and Get the Point Contributor(s): Lutz, William D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062734121 ISBN-13: 9780062734129 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1999 Annotation: From "Smart Bombs" to "structural adjustment, " the words emanating from officialdom seem to grow more maddeningly indirect every day. Here to sort it all out is the world's leading authority on doublespeak. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Dictionaries - Humor | Topic - Politics - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Dewey: 427 |
| LCCN: 99019253 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.22" W x 7.96" (0.53 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In an increasingly Orwellian world, everyone should be armed with this hilarious, slyly subversive deconstruction of the slippery locutions of spinmeisters from all walks of public life. Doublespeak guru William Lutz (Doublespeak, The New Doublespeak) is uniquely qualified to bring you this supremely funny expos' of the juiciest ways THEY are trying to bamboozle you A sampling of Doublespeak Defined Bald n./: hair disadvantaged Men in Japan aren't bald; they're "hair disadvantaged," according to The Japan Economic Journal. Diet n./:1.nutrional avoidance therapy 2. caloric reduction program Frozen adj./:1 deep chilled 2. fresh 3. hard chilled 4. previously frozen The USDA considers processed chickens "fresh," not frozen, if they have been chilled to 28 degrees Fahrenheit. Chickens so processed have not been frozen but "deep chilled." Light Switch n./: ideogram illumination intensity adjustment potentiometer Waste paper basket n./: user-friendly, space-effective, flexible desk side sortation unit Government officials in Toronto, Canada, paid $123.80 (Canadian) each for these items. |