Verbal Camouflage.

[jones jones]

Some call it Verbal Camouflage, other Doublespeak, some Euphemisms … I call it outright lying or at the very least, stretching the truth. I don’t mean the innocuous camouflage, also known as politically correct terminology intended to spare someone’s feelings or to make someone feel their job isn’t as crappy as it probably sounds. I mean most waste disposal personnel probably don’t mind being called garbage collectors or dustmen.

Imagine if Lonnie Donegan had sung about his old man being a garbage disposal man instead of a dustman ….

Or saying to the wife: “I’m just popping down to the volume reduction unit (dump) to offload this tatty old couch.” Or the cop telling his partner that he’d just arrested a hard-core unemployed guy (bum) in depressed socio-economic area (slum.)

I’m talking about the drivel that is spoken by politicians in Washington and London and other western capitals. Stuff like: “After enhanced interrogation (torture) it was discovered that …” Or … “An explosive device in Kabul caused collateral damage.” Instead of “… Blood, guts and severed limbs covered the area after a bomb exploded in Kabul.” I particularly dislike the euphemism “targeted attacks” – a term originally used by Israel and then the USA in order to justify assassinations.

Why don’t they tell us what they doing in plain English as she is spoke?

I mean a fundraiser is a fundraiser, not a finance event.

[Bruv]

Lottsa black diamonds with question marks in THAT post

[jones jones]

Bruv;1414433 wrote: Lottsa black diamonds with question marks in THAT post


Stop talking in tongues fool!

[LarsMac]

"Plain English" is sort of an oxymoron, I think.