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Is It An Invasion, Or Is It A Pre-Dawn Vertical Insertion? Is It Air Bombing, Or Is It Air Support? Is It Dead And Wounded, Or Is It Casualties? Whatever Word Or Phrase Is Being Used In Place Of What Something Actually Is, Military-Industrial Double-Talk, What George Orwell Called "Newspeak", Seeks To Frame And Re-frame All Points Of Discussion About An Issue In The Interests Of Those Who Control What's Being Said On The Behalf Of Those Who're Doing What's Actually Being Done. This Emmy Nominated 1990 Installment Of The Venerable Weekly Military/Public Affairs Show "America's Defense Monitor" With Dr. Sanford Gottlieb of the Center For Defense Information (CDI) Explores The Tangled Web They Weave Who Practice To Deceive And Alerts Us To The Consequences Of A Society Whose Discourse Is Limited By The Language That The Military, Business And Government Use To Propagandize Notions Rather Than Disseminate Facts - All Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Color, 1990, 30 Minutes.)
Officialese, Bureaucratese, or Governmentese is language that sounds official. It is the "language of officialdom". Officialese is characterized by a preference for wordy, long sentences; a preference for complex words, code words or buzzwords over simple, traditional ones; a preference for vagueness over directness and a preference for passive over active voice (some of those elements may, however, vary between different times and languages). The history of officialese can be traced to the history of officialdom, as far back as the eldest human civilizations and their surviving official writings. Officialese is meant to impress the listener (or reader) and increase the authority (more than the social status) of the user, making them appear more professional. Ernest Gowers noted that officialese also allows the user to remain vague. It can be used to make oneself understood to insiders while being hard to decipher by those unfamiliar with the jargon and subtexts used. Its use is known to put off members of the general public and reduce their interest in the material presented. Officialese has been criticized as making one's speech or prose "stilted, convoluted, and sometimes even indecipherable" and simply as the "cancer of language". It is thus more pejoratively classified as one of the types of gobbledygook. Its use can also result in unintended humorous incidents, and has been often satirized. Several similar concepts to officialese exist, including genteelism, commercialese, academese, and journalese. The existence of officialese has been recognized by a number of organizations, which have made attempts to curtail its use in favour of plain language.
Is It An Invasion, Or Is It A Pre-Dawn Vertical Insertion? Is It Air Bombing, Or Is It Air Support? Is It Dead And Wounded, Or Is It Casualties? Whatever Word Or Phrase Is Being Used In Place Of What Something Actually Is, Military-Industrial Double-Talk, What George Orwell Called "Newspeak", Seeks To Frame And Re-frame All Points Of Discussion About An Issue In The Interests Of Those Who Control What's Being Said On The Behalf Of Those Who're Doing What's Actually Being Done. This Emmy Nominated 1990 Installment Of The Venerable Weekly Military/Public Affairs Show "America's Defense Monitor" With Dr. Sanford Gottlieb of the Center For Defense Information (CDI) Explores The Tangled Web They Weave Who Practice To Deceive And Alerts Us To The Consequences Of A Society Whose Discourse Is Limited By The Language That The Military, Business And Government Use To Propagandize Notions Rather Than Disseminate Facts - All Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Color, 1990, 30 Minutes.)
Officialese, Bureaucratese, or Governmentese is language that sounds official. It is the "language of officialdom". Officialese is characterized by a preference for wordy, long sentences; a preference for complex words, code words or buzzwords over simple, traditional ones; a preference for vagueness over directness and a preference for passive over active voice (some of those elements may, however, vary between different times and languages). The history of officialese can be traced to the history of officialdom, as far back as the eldest human civilizations and their surviving official writings. Officialese is meant to impress the listener (or reader) and increase the authority (more than the social status) of the user, making them appear more professional. Ernest Gowers noted that officialese also allows the user to remain vague. It can be used to make oneself understood to insiders while being hard to decipher by those unfamiliar with the jargon and subtexts used. Its use is known to put off members of the general public and reduce their interest in the material presented. Officialese has been criticized as making one's speech or prose "stilted, convoluted, and sometimes even indecipherable" and simply as the "cancer of language". It is thus more pejoratively classified as one of the types of gobbledygook. Its use can also result in unintended humorous incidents, and has been often satirized. Several similar concepts to officialese exist, including genteelism, commercialese, academese, and journalese. The existence of officialese has been recognized by a number of organizations, which have made attempts to curtail its use in favour of plain language.