In the novel Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell makes us encounter numerous examples of Doublespeak, Euphemisms, Newspeak, and Oldspeak. There are many examples of these in the present reality. The government manipulates us into believing the truth but not seeing it as horribly as it really is. It is very disturbing to believe the truth yet to not be able to know what the truth is.
Euphemism is the act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive. For example euphemisms for death or words related to death like dying or dead are very common. People tend to say that someone departed or has gone to a better place; for dying, one might say the he or she is fading quickly because the end is near. Deceased is a word that replaces death. Many euphemisms for the dead body exist. Some are profane and others are polite: the shroud, the loved one the dearly departed the client. Euphemisms for someone who has died is said to have passed away, passed on, bit the big one, bought the farm, croaked, given up the ghost, kicked the bucket, gone south, tits up shuffled off this mortal coil or assumed room temperature. When buried, they terms used are: pushing up daisies, sleeping with the fishes or taking a dirt nap. There are many other different ones.
Doublespeak is language deliberately constructed to disguise its actual meaning, usually from governmental, military, or corporate institutions. The word doublespeak started being in use in the 1950s. It is often incorrectly attributed to George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word actually never appears in the book; Orwell did, however, use the words Newspeak, and Oldspeak. In addition, doublespeak may be in the form of euphemisms. In the early days of the practice it was considered wrong to construct words to disguise meaning, this is now an accepted and established practice. There is an industry in constructing words without explicit me...