One of the features of the world of Oceania reflecting Orwell's prescience is its official language, Newspeak, an argot resembling a kind of Morse code that satirizes advertising norms, political jargon, and government
bureaucratese. The purpose of Newspeak is to limit thought, on the view that "you can't think what you lack the words for." Ultimately, this impoverished language seeks to narrow and control human thought.
Barr, at the request of the Department of Homeland Security, delayed the effective date of his new rule for 90 days "so that DHS may conduct necessary operational planning." That's
bureaucratese for saying there's no room in the existing detention system and the government needs time to add more internment camps.
But when I hear students heckling a college president as he pleads with them, or watch a 20-year-old shrieking at a professor on the quad, and listen to deans respond with tepid
bureaucratese, the authors' analyses come off as insufficient.
No matter how arcane, obfuscated in
bureaucratese, or technically obscure, each 900-page report must be reviewed, hundreds of iterations of highly technical correspondence fossicked through and omissions, the disregarded or avoided detail, must also be noted.
Choose clear, concise language to communicate, not
bureaucratese to impress and confound.
When originally mooted in 1910, the sonorously phrased Plantation Establishment Livelihood Improvement Scheme (Pelis) mdash a mouthful of
bureaucratese for the shamba system mdash was noble in intention.
They are casually mentioned in blank
bureaucratese on the next to last page: "several hundred people...were caught buying, selling, and working on the Silk Road and were subsequently arrested." But we don't meet them, don't learn how upset their friends or parents are, aren't asked to wonder what good in the world is lost because they are locked up.
There are provisions in the banking sector's Collective Labor Agreement for 2016/17 that banks have to ensure for their employees "the right of continuity of hospitalization coverage insurance" after retirement, through a program called in
bureaucratese C onversion Privilege Options (CPO).
if we must withdraw from Korea, it [must] be clear to the world that that course is forced upon us by military necessity." Translated from
bureaucratese, the message was: hold on with the forces and restrictions you've got, regardless of how many American lives it costs.
(288) To translate from
bureaucratese, the BIA is saying that descent is another proxy for connections to a political entity, specifically a tribe, which existed historically.