What is:
  - atmospheric deposition of antropogenically-derived
    acidic substances.
  - wet deposition
  - transit particle deposition from an unidentified
    source.
translation: acid rain, above text taken from EPA documents

what is:  crystallized, evaporated cane juice"
translation: sugar

what is: "monitored retrievable storage"
translation: nuclear waste, taken from nuclear industry pubs.

The book "doublespeak" calls these definitions:
strategic misrepresentations.
translation: lie

It really is a lie.  The objective isn't communication
it is image and confusion.  That's not truth.  This
may seem unrelated to ecology but many of our ecological
battles are about words.  What is "organic"?  What is
natural?

jeff

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