Doublespeak

(For a detailed historical analysis of the term, see Wikipedia's article on Doublespeak.)

Doublespeak is a term used to label any politically-motivated abuse of language. Unfortunately, "abuse of language" is often not recognized when it exists and often imagined when it doesn't. This wiki is dedicated, in large measure, to exposing and lampooning such semantic chicanery.

While early use of doublespeak could reasonably be claimed to be deliberate, its use of recent vintage often strikes the serious critic as more delusional than malicious. Examples of the former include "gender equality," "compassionate conservative" and "reproductive health services", while expressions like "war of liberation," "nation building," "Arab spring," "climate change" and "sustainable development" seem to have been concocted after more serious, deliberate and even detailed reflection.