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The New Doublespeak

In The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore, author William Lutz defines a few of the more creative doublespeak terms currently in vogue:

Meaningful downturn in aggregate output (recession)

After-sales service (kickback)

Resource development park (trash dump)

Temporarily displaced inventory (stolen goods)

Strategic misrepresentation (lie)

Reality augmentation (lie)

Terminological inexactitude (lie).

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