Jamie Lutz Doublespeak

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More often than not Americans don’t fully comprehend what they are hearing. Our society has come up with mechanisms to “candy-coat” offensive and displeasing ideas that Jamie Lutz refers to as “Doublespeak”. With this problem a society run by doublespeak will soon crumble and show its faults, with its people left suspicious and cynical. When a euphemism is used to mislead someone, it is an act of doublespeaking, or creating a more tasteful reality, and simply just covering up an issue, rather than addressing it. Jamie Lutz uses the example in “doublespeak” that when a loved one dies, you express your condolences by using the euphemism that he “passed away,” instead of “he died.” This is not covering up an issue, you are simply being sincere…show more content…
Lutz shows us how Jesse Moore goes on to explain the improvement of the NASA shuttle program and read to us a very well thought out and organized answer, but upon closer examination, Moore may not even have a clue of what he was talking about. In Moore’s answer he uses impressing and overwhelming words to trick the listeners to believe he is educated on his topic, when in reality he could’ve been just be as clueless as everyone else was. Last but not least when a speaker wants to make the “ordinary sound extraordinary,” inflated language is just the key to use. Although not always harmful, Lutz conveys the “doublespeak of inflated language can have serious consequences” by showing us in military doublespeak, the “Caribbean Peace Keeping Forces” were “predawning vertical insertion” by no more than invading Grenada and using inflated language to give an “air of importance” and complexness to things that would not otherwise be important or as complicated. Manipulated conversations, and a misunderstanding are both received as doublespeak, doublespeak is commonly used and most of the time not generally caught right away. It could be a synonym, or a completely restated idea, but in the end you are left with a jaded

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