Doublespeak - Doublespeak Doublespeak is language deliberately constructed to disguise its actual meaning, usually from governmental, military, or corporate institutions. The word doublespeak was coined in the early 1950s. It is often incorrectly attributed to George Orwell and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word actually never appears in that novel; Orwell did, however, coin Newspeak, Oldspeak and doublethink, and his novel made fashionable composite nouns with speak as the second element, which were previously unknown in English. It was therefore just a matter of time before someone came up with doublespeak. Doublespeak may be considered, in Orwell's lexicography, as the B vocabulary of Newspeak, words "deliberately constructed for political purposes: words, that is to say, which not only had in every case a political implication, but were.
Doublespeak argument - Doublespeak argument A Doublespeak Argument is the name given to an argument, or debate, where one or more sides seems to be using reasonings that are not the real reasonings for that side. This is usually alleged to have been done because the real reasonings may be offensive in some way, and that side feels that its other reasonings will be strong enough to win the debate. Alleged examples: For example, some consider the fair use argument (where one should be allowed to copy software or music for personal use) in debates for and against file sharing programs to be a doublespeak argument. Although the principle of fair use might be correct, critics argue that the real reason why people want to be able to copy.
Ingsoc - changes sides and alters history to make the side it is currently on the side it has always been on. Winston Smith's job is to alter newspaper archives to reflect the current wave of historical revisionism. Ingsoc is represented by Big Brother, an omnipresent Stalin-like figure constantly depicted on posters and the telescreen. Like Ingsoc itself, Big Brother is constantly watching. Ingsoc demands complete submission to it, and uses torture to achieve that end (Room 101). In fact, Ingsoc has mastered a complex system of psychological tools and methods to make people not only confess imagined crimes and forget any thoughts of rebellion, but to actually love Ingsoc itself. See also Thoughtcrime Newspeak Doublespeak.
Freedom fighter - blunt term for "friend" - some think that it signals an unwillingness to abandon moral support regardless of methods, an unbreakable alliance between players. The ambiguity of the term freedom makes the use of the label freedom fighter particularly useful for propaganda purposes. It is relatively simple to show that the "enemy" has done something which violates one of the many possible meanings of the word freedom, which allows the propagandist to appear to take the moral high ground by fighting for the cause of freedom. In addition to this, propagandists commonly use virtue words like freedom, which tend to evoke positive images in the target audience in order to attach those images and feelings to his cause. Certain media agencies, notably the BBC, aside from attributed quotes, refuse to use.
Espionage - this. Black's Law Dictionary (1990) defines espionage as: "...gathering, transmitting, or losing...[information related to the national defense]." Espionage, by a citizen of the target state, is generally considered to be a form of treason. The word "espionage" in governmental language has been replaced by the doublespeak "intelligence"; thus intelligence agency for "espionage agency". The Cold War involved intense espionage activity between the United States of America and its allies and the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China and their allies, particulary related to nuclear weapons secrets. Recently, espionage agencies have targeted the illegal drug trade and terroristss. See: Cold War espionage Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Notable spies or alleged spies 2 Espionage organizations 3 Intelligence disciplines 4 Espionage technology and techniques 5 Counter-espionage technology and techniques 6 Fictional.
Euphemism - connotations easily change over time. Idiot was once a neutral term, and moron a euphemism for it. Negative senses of a word tend to crowd out neutral ones, so the word retarded was pressed into service to replace moron. Now that too is considered rude, and a result, new terms like mentally challenged, special are starting to replace retarded. A similar progression has occurred with reek -> stink -> smell -> odor -> fragrance and crippled -> handicapped -> disabled. Euphemisms are also used to hide unpleasant ideas, even when the term for them is not necessarily offensive. This kind of euphemism is used extensively in the fields of public relations and politics. Examples include: collateral damage for "civilian casualties" downsizing for making redundant unplanned landing for "plane crash" spontaneous energetic.
Disappear - Disappear (as a transitive verb, as in "to disappear someone") is a doublespeak euphemism for the murder of political opponents. Typically, the murder is surreptitious, and the body disposed where it will (hopefully) never be found. The person is simply disappears. The party committing the murder has deniability, as there is no dead body to show the victim is actually dead. The method started in the Soviet Union during the Great Purge. When someone was purged, state police would take him away to be killed, usually in the night. For important people, artists would literally airbrush them out of photographs. It was as if they never existed. In Argentina, political dissidents were forced to jump out of airplanes far out over the Atlantic ocean. Obviously, their bodies were never found. Without.
Classified information - need-to-know, the assertion that if an individual needs to know certain information in order to satisfactorily perform her or his function in the organization, their viewing of that information is authorized, otherwise it is not. Such information is called "classified" because it falls into a certain classification of secrecy. Information which isn't secret is called unclassified information, which carries the doublespeak implication that the natural state of information is to be classified, in other words, to be made secret. The United States government, for example, has a formal hierarchy of classification for secrets: Top secret – this is the highest security level, and is defined as information which would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if disclosed to the public. This classification is most often subdivided on the basis of.
Peace through strength - arouses a great deal of controversy. On the one hand, many especially in the military believe this doctrine and it is responsible for the motto of the United States Air Force, Peace is our profession and on the naming of the Peacekeeper missile. On the other hand, opponents of the concept argue that the doctrine is merely a form of doublespeak and a justification for militarism. The notion of peace through strength is a very important part of both modern and traditional Chinese strategic thought, and was first formalized by Sun Tzu. The complexity of this doctrine can be seen by reactions to Chinese military modernization, which in the view of the Chinese leadership is merely the implementation of this doctrine, while to other powers such as the United States this.
Plain Language Movement - by being more formal as a way to acquire authority and power, believing that this improves credibility. Key figures of the movement hold that this is not so. William Lutz, who teaches at Rutgers University and writes on doublespeak, and is referred to as the "George Orwell of plain language", asserts that "language is power, period. The lesson of Nineteen Eighty-Four is that those who rule the language, rule... The language of the lawyers, of the politicians, of the intelligentsia, is supposed to make [others] feel inferior." He cites also the inability of Three Mile Island and Challenger decision makers to comprehend warnings in vague engineering jargon using odd acronyms. The movement advocates using personal pronouns and the active voice in all writing. The Canadian government is undergoing a pilot project.
Political correctness - asserted that the above-described attitudes associated with political correctness are still very strong in many universities and other institutions. Satirizing PC A well-known satirical take on this alleged movement can be found in the book Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, in which traditional fairy tales are rewritten from a so-called politically correct viewpoint and often reverse the roles of good and evil from those of the original version. For example, Hansel, Gretel and their father are evil and the witch is good in the politically correct version of Hansel and Gretel. The practice of satirizing so-called PC speech indeed took on a life of its own in the 1990s, though it is no longer so popular. Part of what it is to understand the meaning of "PC" is to be familiar with.
Oldspeak - Oldspeak was supposed to have been completely eclipsed by Newspeak by 2050. See also: Doublethink, Doublespeak, Duckspeak, and two plus two make five.
Newspeak - either side ultimately reduce to "I'm good; he's bad." Charges of Newspeak are sometimes advanced when a group tries to replace a word/phrase that is politically incorrect (e.g. "civilian casualties") or offensive (e.g. "murder") with a politically correct or inoffensive one (e.g. "collateral damage"). Some maintain that to make certain words or phrases 'unspeakable' (thoughtcrime), restricts what ideas may be held (Newspeak). Others believe that expunging terms that have fallen out of favour or become insulting will make people less likely to hold outdated or offensive views. The differences between these two points of view is primarily a matter of perspective. Either way, there is a resemblance between political correctness and Newspeak, although some may feel that they differ in their intentions: in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak is instituted to enhance the.
Military secret - and location of specific weapons, and plans. Some involve information in broader areas, such as secure communications, cryptography, intelligence operations, and cooperation with third-parties. The phrase "military secret" has been replaced in governmental language by the doublespeak phrase classified information. See also: Military intelligence, Espionage.
Military espionage - captain, with a first lieutenant as a deputy and a master sergeant (pay grade E-8) or platoon sergeant (pay grade E-7) as staff NCO. The United States Army trains military intelligence officers at Fort Huachucha, Arizona. Britain In Britain the MI abbreviation is used by MI5 and MI6, but neither organization is a military intelligence group - the use is a historical vestige relating to their origins. The intelligence group of the British Army is the Intelligence Corps. See also propaganda, disinformation, military secrets, doublespeak External Link Intelligence News.
