Abstract
THE NCTE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC DOUBLESPEAK is one of the better ideas that people in our profession have had in some time. If the Committee focuses on the right problems, it should prove to be an important weapon for attacking the dishonest language of bureaucrats (and others) who shape our lives in so many ways. Yet the Committee's very approach to the misuse of language and to what it calls doublespeak may in the long run severely limit its usefulness. I wish, first, to comment on this approach and, second, to make several suggestions for resolving the contradictions that arise out of the Committee's premises.