ort [] explained that the $1.7 million income was due to "the involuntary conversion of a 727." National thus acknowledged the crash of its airplane and the subsequent profit it made from the crash, without once mentioning the incident or the deaths.
Bureaucratese, in Lutz's formulation, "is simply a matter of piling on words . . .the bigger the words and the longer sentences the better," with "corporate bureaucrats, government bureaucrats, and lawyers" the chief agents of deliberate obfuscation via vigorous communication. For example, to avoid negative publicity and possible legal exposure, companies do not fire employees but engage in "'workforce adjustments,' 'headcount reductions,' or 'negative employee retention.' A television station . . . didn't fire one of the anchorpersons on its evening news program, it was just 'rearranging the anchor configuration.'"
One of the most compelling uses of bureaucratese takes shape as an extended metaphor in George Orwell's 1984. 1984 chronicles a political society gone mad, with ambiguous language its
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