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Linguistic transparency is a phrase which is used in multiple,
overlapping subjects in the fields of linguistics and the
philosophy of language. It has both normative and descriptive
senses.   Normatively, the phrase can be used to describe the
effort to suit one's rhetoric to the widest possible audience,
without losing relevant information in the process.  Advocates
of normative linguistic transparency often argue that linguistic
opacity is dangerous to a democracy. These critics point out
that jargon is deliberately employed in government and business.
It encrypts morally suspect information in order to dull
reaction to it: for example, the phrase "collateral damage" to
refer to the manslaughter of innocents.  One play upon this view
was by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, who in the Elements
of Style ruled that the writer ought to "eschew obfuscation".
The Plain Language Movement is an example of people who advocate
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