Doublespeak, Doubletalk, et cetera

1. Pretentious and obscure talk full of technical terminology or circumlocutions.
2. Confusing or generally unintelligible jargon; gobbledegook.
3. Language whose purpose is to obscure, to confuse, or to mislead.
4. The insidious art of interfacial obfuscation and verbiage.
5. The art of expressing simple concepts in quirky convolutions.

"People who talk about task-oriented interpersonal relationships, individualized learning stations, or optically scanned inter-office memos."

An example of a bafflegab exposition

Phillips Lane is an attractive road mainly due to its organic alignment and semi-detached cottage-scale houses arranged in relaxed positions."

1. A language that is deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often resulting in a "communication bypass". Such language is often associated with governmental, military, and corporate institutions.
2. The ability to speak or write two or more contradictory ideas without the speaker or writer being consciously aware of the contradiction.
3. Doublespeak is often consciously used to deceive and to sidetrack the reality or truth about an unpleasant situation or fact.
4. It also seems, consciously or unconsciously, to be used as a tool to fog up and otherwise avoid what could easily be a simple, unambiguous, statement.

Doublespeak is about making words and facts agree. It is a process of misleading, distorting, deceiving, inflating, circumventing; as well as, obfuscating. It is a language that refers to lies being used as "strategic misrepresentations" and therefore avoids responsibility, that makes the bad seem good, the negative appear positive, something unpleasant appear attractive, language that only appears to communicate. It's a language designed to alter our perception of reality and corrupt our thinking.

We need to be on constant alert so that those who create and use doublespeak can't use it to control, manipulate, deceive, use, and abuse us.

1. Evasive or ambiguous language.
2. Language that has no real meaning or has more than one meaning and is intended to hide the truth: "He accused the ambassador of diplomatic double-talk."

1. An English term used to describe nonsensical language, or sounds that resemble language but have no meaning; encrypted text.
2. Something that is being expressed in an overly complicated manner.
3. Unintelligible, inflated language; usually the hallmark of many government agencies.
4. Involved, pedantic, repetitious, and pompous jargon, relying heavily upon Latinized expressions and meaningless cliches; applied especially to the written and spoken language of bureaucrats and professional politicians.

Coined by Texas Congressman, Maury Maverick, U.S. Congressman and chairman of the Smaller War Plant Corporation, in a 1944 memo after attending a wordy committee meeting. He is said to have vehemently denounced the long-winded, pretentious speech of his colleagues and other government spokespeople.

He later said the word just came to him, but perhaps he was thinking of the turkey gobblers back in his native Texas and of the "gobbledygobbling" sound they made while strutting so pompously, and that their gobbling ended in a "gook" sound.

Gobbledygook was just a continuation of the New Deal's bureaucratic officialese, which delighted in such terms as activation, clearance, coordinator, implementation, objective, to process, and roll-back.

By the 1950s, such talk, or writing, was also called bafflegab and by the early 60s, Pentagonese; and even now, whitehallese.

Also known as, bureaucratese, or the legalistic, wordy style of communication often characteristic of government announcements.

1. An in-grown compulsion to be impressively ornate rather than simply being direct.
2. A style of language used in some official statements, often criticized for its use of polysyllabic jargon and obscure, pretentiously wordy phrasing.
3. Language characteristic of official documents or statements, especially when obscure, pretentiously wordy, verbose, or excessively formal.