The New Doublespeak: No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore
William Lutz, a professor of English at Rutgers University and former  editor of the Quarterly Review of Doublespeak, has had enough of  doublespeak--the inflated, involved and often deliberately ambiguous use of  language or when "strategic misinterpretations" are used instead of  lies. He argues that the practice has been growing in our culture, and he's  right. In this book he reviews doubletalk by Democrats, Republicans,  journalists, economists and Supreme Court justices, and shows how the  repeated use of a phrase allows it to stay unchallenged in the lexicon. Say  what you mean, argues Lutz, and we'll all be better off.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.