According to this piece, Doublespeak is a language that deliberately reverses the meaning of words. It is a language that pretends to communicate and convey, while, in fact, it really doesn’t. With the help of euphemisms, jargons, gobbledygooks and inflated language, it only cleverly disguises the nature of the truth.
People, nowadays, resort to using doublespeak because it makes saying harsh truths and realities seem less unpleasant. It is like “sugar-coating” words so as not to sound as offensive as it really is.
In my effort to learn more about doublespeak and William Lutz, I have learned that Lutz is the third chairman of the Doublespeak Committee since 1975 to the present. This entails that this piece is very reliable and all the information stated are indeed true. Also, I learned that Lutz’ sole purpose in writing this is to enlighten the readers that “doublespeak is a form of language that defeats the purpose of inventing language because it does not communicate the truth but seeks to do the opposite and the doublespeak committee is tasked with correcting this problem that doublespeak has created in the world of language.”
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