Doublespeak Defined: Cut Through the Bull and Get the Point

by William D. Lutz

Book Overview

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:

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062734121
• ISBN13: 9780062734129
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: PerfectBound
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Good job!

Lutz' "Doublespeak Redefined" is even better that his original "Doublespeak". The approximately 18 years between them has provided ample time for business and government people to forget plain Emglish and resort to all manner of euphemisms to obfuscate what they really mean. Lutz is to be commended for taking perpetrators who are ruining our language to task in a reasonably controlled way. I don't believe I could have! "Doublespeak Redefined" ought to be mandatory reading for high school juniors and seniors as well as collegians who hope to make their way in business, education, government, communica tions and related disciplines. It would be beneficial for all old college grads and equivalents to peruse it on occasion so they don't fall into the euphemism abyss.