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This live screening and discussion focuses on the work of American linguist, William Lutz, the author of “Doublespeak,” and a participant of C-SPAN’s interview, When Language Is Used To Deceive You – How Doublespeak Distorts Reality and Corrupts Thought.

“There is more to being an effective consumer of language than just expressing dismay at dangling modifiers, faulty subject and verb agreement, or questionable usage. All who use language should be concerned whether statements and facts agree, whether language is, in Orwell’s words, ‘largely the defense of the indefensible’ and whether language ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’.” – William Lutz

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