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Doublespeak vs Gaga - What's the difference?

doublespeak | gaga |

As a noun doublespeak

is any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity typically used by governments or large institutions.

As an adjective gaga is

(label) (exhibiting the deterioration in the mind).

doublespeak

English

Noun

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  • Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity. Typically used by governments or large institutions.
  • :The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret.
  • *1976 , Brent D. Ruben, The Coming of the Information Age'', in ''Information and Behavior (Brent D. Ruben, ed.), page 7
  • *:The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of doublespeak , of a "garbage collector" turned "sanitary engineer" or a "strike" turned "work stoppage."

    • Synonyms

    *doubletalk

    See also

    *(wikipedia "doublespeak")

    gaga

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Mentally senile.
    • The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga .
  • (informal) Crazy.
    • You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.
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    Should he lose it once and for all, he and Kathleen would need lots of money. Also, he had said to me, you could be gaga in a tenured chair at Princeton, and would anybody notice?
  • (informal) Infatuated.
    • The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.

    Usage notes

    * As demonstrated in the example sentences above, gaga'' is often preceded by the verb ''go .