governmentese
supposedly jargon held to be characteristic of government officials;
a language spoken by government employees and their conntractors for the purpose of accomplishing as little as possible over the longest period of time
first known use of governmentese
1944
q: “why doesn’t someone just fire this guy?”
a: “he’s the only one who speaks governmentese. we would have any public school contracts without him.”
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