We don't challenge the politicians who speak not of slums or ghettos but of the
"inner city" or "substandard housing" where the "disadvantaged" live, thus avoiding any mention of the poor who have to live in filthy, poorly heated, ramshackle apartments or houses. - Lutz And this is ironic because we can agree with Orwell’s rules to help clean out a set of bad English habits, but at the same time other rules and expectations stop us from truly being original.
Lutz’s thoughts on doublespeak is seen as a harmless and careless use of words. Well take into consideration what Lutz said:
Doublespeak turns lies told by politicians into "being economical with the truth," sewage sludge into "regulated organic nutrients" that do not stink but "exceed the odor threshold," the death of a patient in a hospital into "negative patient care outcome," an explosion and fire in a nuclear power plant into an "energetic disassembly" and