Doublespeak

Doublespeak In today’s society people are oblivious to doublespeak. The government and television are known for using doublespeak to make things look and sound better then what they are. The American public is manipulated and deceived everyday by the people who use doublespeak and are unaware of its consequences. Our government, the people who are in control of are freedom and rights use doublespeak to deceive us. They change the words of warfare to make them seem more pleasant, like “servicing the target” for killing the enemy, or “enhanced radiation device” for nuclear bomb. What is sad though is that the public is completely unaware of the consequences that this could have. There could be a nuclear bomb coming towards us that would destroy life as we know it; but all we would know is that it was a “very, large, potentially disruptive reentry system.” The government also uses gobbledygook, another form of doublespeak that is full of technical, unfamiliar words. Most gobbledygook is just a bunch of impressive words that don’t make any sense at all. Like in 1988 when Senator Dan Quayle explained the need for a strategic defense initiative by saying: “Why wouldn’t an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, doublespeak, people, government, unaware, better, make, words, things, television, public, product, know, consequences, way, using, sound, sense, popular, pepsi, nuclear, meat, material, manipulated, making, lutz, look, just, gobbledygook, eventually, enhanced, don’t, deceived, crab, control, car