Bureaucratese

The bureaucratese is a bit more poignant than it might at first seem. 910 means the house was searched on 9/10. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In typical bureaucratese, the interim director, Deborah Carroll ,explained, During hypothermia season, any participant who meets the definition of homeless should get shelter. ❋ Art Levine (2011)

This week's announcement – a list of procedures with no attempt to address the fundamental moral, legal and philosophical dilemma that underlies Guantánamo as much now as on the day it opened – is merely bureaucratese for the fact that Guantánamo, and all that it represents, is here to stay. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Its grand strategy remains incomprehensible even to its friends; its military policy is mired in bureaucratese. ❋ Harsh V. Pant (2011)

Translated from bureaucratese, that means what Finnish Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen calls an austerity program "stricter, harder and more comprehensive than the one the Portuguese parliament voted against." ❋ Irwin Stelzer (2011)

He has refused the X-ray machine every time and found that the TSA agents inspecting his " crotchal area " as one of them said in a newly coined bit of bureaucratese admit the procedure is meant to be so unpleasant that fliers will choose the naked-picture machine instead. ❋ Eric Felten (2010)

I also covered the White House for various media in the 1970s and 1980s, and learned first-hand from her about accuracy, fairness, balance, and how to wade through the morass of government bluster and bureaucratese. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is not too surprising for a couple of reasons: local politics, even in a large city, most often deals with minuscule issues, normally of interest only to those directly affected, and discussions about same are almost necessarily couched in bureaucratese, a totally mind-numbing language seemingly designed expressly to obfuscate just what is being discussed and confuse any normal person. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But it was also clear, listening to his earnest, jargon-filled bureaucratese, just how overwhelmed and unprepared the government (not to mention BP) was to handle disasters of the kind that we should have known would eventually, inevitably result from drilling wells a mile below the surface of the ocean and tens of miles offshore. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A swell bit of bureaucratese, 'unitary executive' simply means the president RULES because the president has the final authority over Congress. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bureaucratese was changed to something the customer could easily understand, and the results followed. ❋ Lisa W. Hershman (2010)

William Safire used it in 1983, in fact, saying it was "bureaucratese for an office without work to do." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Translation from the bureaucratese: McKinley is one of the very worst performing schools in the state, even when bench-marked against other schools serving a predominately low-income, minority population. ❋ Fernando Espuelas (2010)

They provided food, medical care, and “other support”—vague bureaucratese that could mean anything from bicycles to latrines. ❋ Karen Palmer (2010)