![]() ![]() ![]() Such obscuration may be obtained either by black-out construction or by termination of the illumination.ģ. Such preparations shall be made as will completely obscure all Federal and non-Federal buildings occupied by the Federal Government during an air raid for any period of time from visibility by reason of internal or external illumination. It is a tricky problem to find the particular calibration in timing that would be appropriate to stem the acceleration in risk premiums created by falling incomes without prematurely aborting the decline in the inflation-generated risk premiums.Ģ. ![]() price integrity coordinator: sales clerkġ. standard operational procedure basic rules and directions 7. mental activity at the margins: insanityģ. negative patient care outcome: the patient diedĢ. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the party.”Ĭlick on the image below to watch the video clip on C-Span.1. Whatever the party holds to be truth is truth. Not in the individual mind – which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes – only in the mind of the party which is collective and immortal. Reality exists in the human mind, nowhere else. His essay begins with a quote from Orwell’s 1984: It’s well worth listening to the entire speech, which you can do HERE.īelow is a short excerpt where Lutz reads an essay he wrote on Tiananmen Square. His speech is 60-mins in length and truly fascinating. In 1996 Lutz published a sequel: ‘ The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone’s Saying Any More.’ In it he argued that there is a communications crisis in the US.ĭuring a book tour he read several examples of how misleading language affects Americans’ lives and explained how citizens can act against such misrepresentations. (Related: Doublespeak – The Power of Language) Double speek full#You can watch the full 60-minute interview and read the transcript HERE.Ĭ-SPAN Interview with William Lutz, 20 December 1989 (7 mins) When asked what his favourite doublespeak word or phrase was, Lutz replied: “The Department of Defence which, until 1947, was the Department of War.”īelow is a clip from Lutz’s interview with Brian Lamb. He stated that doublespeak is most prevalent in government, followed closely by the advertising industry. This was called ‘a therapeutic misadventure’,” Lutz said. Double speek series#Three weeks ago in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times, in a series of incidents that the pathologist called, ‘Incredible stupidity and incompetence, the surgeons killed the patient,’ it included slitting the patient’s throat during surgery. The hospital called this, ‘a therapeutic misadventure’. ![]() “In 1982, during a caesarean operation, the anaesthetist turned the wrong knob and killed the mother and child. “And, if you run across language that’s defective, take it back, just like you take back the defective toaster, and say, ‘I want an exchange on this one, give me language that works, give me clear language’.”Ĭhapter two of Doublespeak is titled ‘therapeutic misadventures, the economically non-affluent and deep-chilled chickens, the double-speak of everyday life, everyday living’. You are just as much, as much a consumer of language as you are a consumer of goods, and so you have to be a critical consumer of language, just as you’re a critical shopper. “You know, we talk about the consumer movement where you have to be aware of the product that you buy when you go and purchase something, you have to be aware of the language that’s used in our society. “I’ve produced what I like to think of as handbook for survival in the 20 th century, in the, age of the media, so that people will become critical consumers of language. He pointed out that his mission is not to eradicate doublespeak, but to eliminate doublespeak from the discourse of important issues where it is most dangerous. During an interview with C-SPAN, hosted by Brian Lamb, Lutz said doublespeak is consciously used to manipulate. In 1989 William Lutz, linguist and professor of English at Rutgers University, published his book, ‘ Doublespeak: The Use of Language to Deceive You’. Join the conversation in our Telegram Discussion Group here Follow The Exposé’s Official Channel on Telegram here ![]()
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