Life Under The Doublespeak Office Analysis

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My Journal for Life under the Doublespeak Office Each essay for this week’s journal had a great quality to them. The essay by William Lutz, Life under the Chief Doublespeak Office, purpose is to explain what doublespeak is. The author, William Lutz also gives examples of doublespeak. As the author, William Lutz, stated in the essay, Life under the Chief Doublespeak Office, in paragraph one, ‘The meaning of Doublespeak is language that only pretends to say something; it’s language that hides, evades or misleads’ (Lutz, n.d., para 1). An example that the author, William Lutz uses in the essay Life under the Doublespeak Office, is “With doublespeak, no truck driver is the worst driver, just the “least-best” driver and bribes are called “rebates” …show more content…
An example of descriptive language is quoted in the Life under the Chief Doublespeak Office by William Lutz in paragraph seven, “With doublespeak, banks don’t have “bad loans” or “bad debts”; they have “nonperforming assets” or “nonperforming credits” which are “rolled over” or “rescheduled”.” (Lutz, n.d., Para. 7). I think that the above, descriptive writing pattern being used well by the writer by the writer, William Lutz not only shows the doublespeak language used, but what others may know the word of doublespeak as. An example to back up my reason is quoted in paragraph eight in the essay, Life under the Chief Doublespeak Officer, “No one gets fired these days, and no one gets laid off. If you’re high enough in the corporate pecking order, you “resign for personal reasons.”” (Lutz, n.d., para. 8). Lastly, I plan on using some of the descriptive languages that William Lutz used in his essay, in my personal essay by using different words for areas where I was sexually

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